Written in Blood: A True Story of Murder and a Deadly 16-Year-Old Secret that Tore a Family Apart

Diane Fanning

Jul 2019 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Callie Beaulieu

About this audiobook

Michael Peterson was driven to succeed. An army brat-turned-marine, he saw combat in Vietnam, and returned a decorated soldier. An avid reader, his dreams of being an acclaimed novelist came true. His desire to find love was fulfilled when he married brilliant executive Kathleen Atwater, the first female student accepted at Duke University's School of Engineering. The Petersons seemed the ideal academic couple-well-respected, prosperous, and happy. And compelled to kill. All that came crashing down in December of 2001, when Kathleen apparently fell to her death in their secluded home in an exclusive area of Durham, North Carolina. But blood-spattered evidence and a missing fireplace poker suggested calculated, cold-blooded murder. Her trusted husband stood accused. Prosecutors introduced evidence at trial that sixteen years earlier, Peterson was one of the last people to see his neighbor alive before she was found dead at the bottom of a staircase in her home in Germany. A dramatic trial followed in the explosive final chapter of a life that no novelist could ever have conceived . . .

About the author

Diane Fanning is the Edgar Award-nominated, nationally bestselling author of many true crime books, including Under Cover of the Night, Her Deadly Web, and Through the Window. She has also penned the Lucinda Pierce Mysteries and Scandal in the Secret City, a World War II mystery. She lives in Bedford, Virginia.

Callie Beaulieu has been an actress for several decades. Classically trained, she is predominantly a theater actress, and her work has been seen around the country. Callie recently returned to the US after spending nearly a decade living in the Caribbean. She is a proud member of Actors Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA.