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Playing with Fire

The True Story of a Nurse, Her Husband, and a Marriage Turned Fatal

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Playing with Fire

By: John Glatt
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
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A beautiful nurse. A lethal injection. A gruesomely charred corpse.

Nothing could have shocked the sleepy community of Morgantown, West Virginia, more than the lurid details that surfaced after a house fire claimed the life of Shelly Michael's husband, Jimmy. Local authorities suspected possible arson. Then they discovered that Jimmy had been dead before the fire even started - paralyzed by a fatal dose of muscle relaxant....

Did Shelly Michael, a respected nurse and mother, kill her second husband and torch her own home? Were the rumors true that she'd had an affair with her husband's employee only two weeks before the murder? Or did she kill Jimmy simply for the insurance money? Charged with first-degree murder and first-degree arson, Shelly would never stop claiming her innocence - even to this day.

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Thorough Details • Riveting Storytelling • Excellent Narration • Informative Content • Well Told Story • Measured Pace
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A straightforward account of a horrible murder. The narrator was first class.
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Well Presented

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Obviously well researched and well written, clear and precise--and with excellent narration! Well worth the time!

Excellent book and presentation!

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This is a well told story with full attention to details and I loved the way the narrator told the story.

Incredible. True crime.

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Very slow telling of a not so exciting or mind boggling murder. Way too many characters introduced that didn’t really have a whole lot to do with the murder. I kept falling asleep and eventually slept through the end. I didn’t even back it up to hear the verdict.

I Fell Asleep

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Immediately after finishing I got online to give this review. It was the perfect true crime story without unnecessarily repeated references and scenes. Not too podcast-y, not boring. Not too detective or law bent…. The perfect true crime book imo. More!

Well written and superb narration!

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The author wrote an extremely in-depth bio of the various people involved. I stopped listening in chapter 8 when I realized that I was no longer paying attention, but playing it for background noise. It may have picked up later, but I felt, that up to that point, this could have been told in a lot less time.

The narrator was fine, but he's British, and for the life of me, I can't understand why an American actor wasn't reading. I found it incongruous. I wondered if I had misread the book details and even checked to make sure the crime wasn't committed in England.

Slow

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It’s not a whodunnit, you know who did it. So many peripheral characters are introduced, but they’re really just filler and add nothing to understanding the tawdry motivations behind the murder. I’m two hours from the end and don’t care anymore.

A Podcast Stretched to a Book.

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A LITTLE MUCH IN THE DETAIL DEPARTMENT but that makes you understand the dynamics of the situation and the resulting crime which was pure evil....

well written and disturbing

a despicable person ...GREAT BOOK

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This was a great book, takes a minute to understand the players but you will if you hang in there and once you know you won’t be able to stop listening. A must listen. Money well spent

Wonderful

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I listened to the podcast on this and the book is way more informative. Well written and enjoyed how evry detail was in it.

Well told

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