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Abbott still remembers the crime whenever she passes by.
I can never not think of it, she says.
Contemplating the possibility of evil in familiar controls has proved fertile for Abbotts imagination.
The TV pilot, which Abbott co-wrote, will start shooting in August.
I have a lot of female murderers, Abbott says, laughing.
Give Me Your Handplays with cultural constructions of female blood rage, often in a self-consciously ironic way.
Lets toast female hormonal madness!
Beneath those layers is a profoundly intelligent probing into precisely what motivates women to kill.
The seductive female criminal, a.k.a.
Male writers really dont want to look in there, she says.
Think how different they would look.
Its another novel with spoiler alert a female killer.
It just never happens.
But with the men, again, its really not about the girl at all, she says.
Its a projection of a set of male feelings.
And I dont think women have the same desire to do that.
Or we just dont with TV and film, we just havent had the chance.
Maybe now we will.
Well have a whole rash of dead boys, I suggest.
We can only hope!
