The Surgeon's Wife cover art

The Surgeon's Wife

A True Story of Obsession, Rage, and Murder

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Unlimited access to our all-you-can-listen catalogue of 15K+ audiobooks and podcasts
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

The Surgeon's Wife

By: Kieran Crowley
Narrated by: Danny Campbell
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £21.99

Buy Now for £21.99

About this listen

In the summer of 1985, in his exclusive Upper East Side Manhattan apartment, Robert Bierenbaum, a prominent surgeon and certified genius, strangled his wife Gail to death. He then drove her body to an airstrip in Caldwell, N.J., and dumped it into the Atlantic Ocean from a single-engine private plane. The next day he reported her missing.

Gail's parents had been thrilled to learn she was marrying Robert Bierenbaum. He seemed to be the perfect match for their daughter. He was from a well-to-do family, a medical student who spoke five languages fluently, a skier, and he even flew an airplane. But Gail would come to learn of her husband's dark side. On one occasion when Robert had tried to choke Gail because he caught her smoking, she filed a police report. She also alleged that he tried to kill her cat because he was jealous of it. For years, her sister pleaded with Gail to run for her life. Even her therapist warned his vulnerable patient that she could eventually die at the hands of the man she married.

Fifteen years after this unspeakable, unfathomable crime, a jury found Robert Bierenbaum guilty of murder - and stripped the mask off of this privileged professional to reveal a monster.

©2001 Kieran Crowley (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Murder True Crime
All stars
Most relevant
oh dear. This narrator , he's no Kevin Pearce. I could hear him breathing, he paused for no reason and had a monotonous tone.
it really spoilt my enjoyment of such a great story

Bad narration

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
And don't get me started on the loose lipped unethical media whore Dr Michael Stone, he should have been struck off the register and put out to pasture for his unethical breach of Dr /Client privelage
Great book, infuriating, funny and with the victim being presented not as the wonderful innocent , but as the shallow coke snorting tramp that she actually was.

Bob oh Bob

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
a very thorough book looking at the case of a doctor who might have murdered his wife.
the twists and turns in the story and the eventual outcome are intricately detailed and discussed. I found this true life story a very interesting one that leads to one conclusion in reality.

interesting

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A very interesting true story. Very intriguing case and impossible to know what really happened. Recommended.

Good book

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
An intriguing story however the narrator is dull and robotic. The total lack of “lifting it off the page” of the narrator makes the reading very flat and unengaging.

Ruined by the narrator

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.