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An FBI agent’s affair with his informant ends in murder in this true crime account of the notorious case by the New York Times bestselling author.   At twenty-seven years old, Susan Daniels Smith was a dirt poor, divorced mother of two living in rural Kentucky. She prayed for a Prince Charming to come to her rescue, and when good-looking FBI agent Mark Putnam entered her life, she thought those prayers had been answered. She was dead wrong. Their relationship began when Susan agreed to be Mark's paid informant in an investigation of her ex-husband's criminal friends. It quickly grew into an illicit affair that consumed their lives for nearly two years—until she became pregnant.    Susan made demands, threatening to expose Mark in ways that ruined his career and marriage. On June 8, 1989, Mark took Susan for a drive into the hills to discuss her insistence on marriage. She was never heard from again. The FBI Killer recounts the bizarre events that forced Mark Putnam to confess to brutally killing his lover, then covering up his crime for more than a year.

Renowned true crime authority and New York Times bestselling author Aphrodite Jones brings her unparalleled insider access to the jolting, tragic tale of the bestselling novelist and convicted wife killer Michael Peterson, the "perfect husband" who would later become the subject of the hit Netflix docu-series The Staircase and the HBO miniseries of the same name, starring Colin Firth and Toni Collette.“A classic true-crime page-turner.” —M. William Phelps, creator of the Paper Ghosts podcastMichael Peterson was a decorated war veteran and bestselling novelist. His wife Kathleen was a high-powered executive and devoted mother. They seemed to be the perfect couple—until the tragic night Michael claimed he found Kathleen at the bottom of the stairs in a pool of blood.He said her death was an accident. The prosecution put him behind bars. Then in a stunning reversal, a judge gave Michael another chance to stand trial.Aphrodite Jones draws on exclusive interviews and disturbing new evidence to expose this compelling real-life thriller of marriage, manipulation, and murder.With a probing analysis of the series The Staircase.

Living as a man, twenty-one-year-old Teena Brandon hit the dust bowl town of Falls City, Nebraska, on the run from her family in Lincoln - and from the law for forging checks.Aphrodite Jones lays bare an America where many young people boldly experiment with gender identity, challenging our ideas of male and female, gay and straight - and where Teena Brandon and her friends paid a terrible price for sexual freedom.