Exploring the Magnetic Allure of Female Con Artists
Tori Telfer’s new book, “Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion,” examines unbelievable women that lied and cheated to get what they wanted and why we can’t stop obsessing over them. Harper Perennial/Amber Hawkins
In the late 1990s, Rose Marks, who claimed to be a psychic, established fortune-telling family businesses in New York and Florida. It was there that she lured clients with promises of a better life, assuring them that, if they took every piece of advice she offered them, she could fix anything from career problems to marital woes. And it was that wildly alluring prospect that eventually attracted popular romance novelist Jude Devereaux, author of