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Book Review of The Surgeon's Wife

The Surgeon's Wife
The Surgeon's Wife
Author: Kieran Crowley
Genre: Nonfiction
Book Type: Paperback
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In the summer of 1985, in his exclusive Upper East Side Manhattan apt, Robert Bierenbaum, a prominent surgeon murdered his wife Gail. According to prosecutors, he then dumped her body in the Atlantic Ocean and the next day reported her missing.