Crimes of the female gender are included in my fifth book. It is about women of all ages who ended up committing crimes, for various reasons.

The first crime I deal with was committed in 1931 and even became a song: "Poor Athanasopoulos, what was meant to happen to you, to lose your youth from a wicked mother-in-law." Dozens of other crimes that took place in Athens and various regions of the country follow.

Most of the homicides I refer to have occupied public opinion for a long time or even years. They were crimes that truly shocked Greece. The protagonist is the woman, as the physical or moral perpetrator or co-perpetrator, in all the homicides included in the book: spousal murders, infanticides, matricides, and murders of other individuals, for various reasons. Many of these homicides bear the character of revenge, terrible passion, abysmal hatred, and are related to money, jealousy, property, and other issues. Interestingly, most of the women who committed crimes had a clean criminal record, they had not troubled the police in the slightest. They were, in other words, the women next door.

I tried to make an accurate description and recording of the actual events so that in the coming years they can be used by the historian of the future without the fear of inaccuracy.

P. Sompolos