Posted on April 25, 2008 by sandra blake

Cold Blooded is a true and devasting story of a wealthy California attorney who at one time had everything he could desire. Larry McNabney had a successful law firm and was very well known in the well to do circles surrounding him. However, this was all about to take a drastic change for the worse when he met and hired a new office manager who set her sights on marriage and his money. The book details the life before and during the lives of Larry McNabney and Elisa McNabney. For a smart and accomplished attorney his friends were take back when he did marry Elisa. This was even after he discovered she had been stealing from his accounts at the law firm and almost cost him his law practice.

The book delves deep into finding out who Elisa McNabney was before she becamee Mrs. McNabney. She was a beautiful woman who was an ace at charming men, she had made that her lifestyle. She had thirty eight aliases and a very long rap sheet, at over one hundred pages in length. However, her worse crime was yet to unfold.

The book takes you on the whirlwind life that these two star crossed lovers went down. It entails Elisa reporting Larry missing in 2001 and takes you on the journey of her confession and conviction for his murder.

There is one last place the book will take you to and that is the suicide of Elisa McNabney. What really drove her to the murder of her successful husband and was it here guilt or something else that led to her suicide. It shows many sides to both Larry and Elisa. He was not easy to live with as he was an known alcoholic and drug user and instead of trying to curb these appetities Elisa seemed to feed into them. Perhaps this was her plan all along. All she left was a note to her daughter professing her love for her.

This is a true crime book that is well written and once you start the first page you will not be able to put it down for wanting to know more about the lives and events in the main characters tragic tale. It is well written and also includes eight pages of photographs of the couples life and of the ending.