This is NB's (auto) biography in
AMZ:
Nancy Brophy is an award-winning author, whose first published work was a pamphlet for the University of Houston entitled Between Your Navel And Your Knees. The subject matter dealt with the changing mores of sexuality in the sixties and seventies. Much of her career has been focused on non-fiction with articles published in trade journals and technical writing for HR departments.
But her true love was story-telling. Eventually she wrote a novel which is still available somewhere under her bed.
In 2003, she joined her local chapter of Romance Writers of America and learned the craft of story writing. Since then she has published both romantic suspense novels and two novellas under her name and others.
Her stories are about pretty men and strong women, about families that don’t always work and about the joy of finding love and the difficulty of making it stay.
She must have written this herself. It sounds like her website. No sign of actual "award winning". She says she wrote non-fiction as a career: no evidence of that AFAIK.
I just have a feeling her whole life is a mirage, no one knew who she really was, and the shoe is about to drop in the trial. The prosecution seems to be picking away at lies.
In this vein, NB took the last name Brophy, even though she wasn't married to DB until shortly before his death.
Her reviews were likely written by club members and were reciprocated.
We've met this type of story so many times in WS IMO: where someone has invented a person for themselves that isn't real, and go criminal.
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IMO the prosecutor is well-chosen: he seems to be an EXTREMELY straight arrow, no fuss no muss. Just the facts... Very clear. Plain, plain, plain. Boring, almost. No flash. The defense talks like a ball of yarn, and evidently, they're going to throw in a morass of insurance agents to make their case. IMO this strategy is not going to be met with enthusiasm versus clarity, sympathetic witnesses, and evidence.
The only insurance that matters in this case is DB's. He had a lot. That NB also had insurance is irrelevant. She prolly kept it to disguise the fact she was going to kill him for his money.
The whole schtick about taking out insurance when DB was younger because it would cost more when he was older? Also irrelevant. And they couldn't afford it.
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I seem to have learned a lot about this case this weekend! I also happen to know a lot about insurance, life and health. At one time, I was licensed in Oregon....
