A bold, mesmerizingly told story about the woman known as 'Typhoid Mary' and once described as 'the most dangerous woman in America'. They called her Typhoid Mary. They believed she was sick, that she was passing typhoid fever from her hands to the food that she served. They said she should have known. But Mary wasn't sick. She hadn't done anything wrong. She wasn't arrested right away. There were warnings. Requests. And when she was finally taken, she did not go quietly. Branded a murderer and condemned by press and public alike, Mary continued to fight for her freedom, no matter the cost. Mary Beth Keane's fictional account presents us with a very cleverly wrought conundrum: was Mary Mallon a selfish monster or a hounded innocent? 'Mary Beth Keane is one of those gifted young writers who helps me believe --still! --in the power of literature' Colum McCann 'Typhoid Mary is a sensational subject, but the strength of this novel is that it bears patient witness to an ordinary human life. Engrossing and wonderfully compassionate' Shelley Harris, Richard & Judy bestselling author of Jubilee 'Keane has very cleverly put flesh on the bogeywoman whom the press dubbed Typhoid Mary ...Disturbing and compelling' The Times 'Medical history's ultimate bad girl was Mary Mallon, the Irish cook who refused to concede that she might be a typhoid carrier, in spite of the trail of death that followed her. A fascinating turn of the last century-set medical cat-and-mouse story, Mary Beth Keane's Fever summons sympathy for the contrary personality at its center, a self-made immigrant grappling with work and love, dignity and denial' Vogue 'Mary Beth Keane inhabits Typhoid Mary in the infectiously readable Fever' Vanity Fair