Just a few miles off the Thailand coast, the island of Kothau looks like a postcard.

I'd underneath the surface lies something sinister.

In the last 20 years dozens of tourists have died mysteriously on the island.

A dark cloud who's come over the island, death, mystery and danger.

Listen to Death Island every Wednesday on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

The Khan Woman's Likeability is the single most important tool she has, sharp as a chef's knife and fake as a theater mask.

Without her likability she would be nothing.

If you like her and you will like her, then her work will be so much easier.

It will all be over quickly. You'll hardly feel a thing.

That is award-winning author Tori Telfer, reading an excerpt from her latest book, Confident Women about the greatest female con artists of all time.

She's the perfect person to talk to about the greatest female con artist I ever met and got scammed by.

I'm Jonathan Walton and this is a bonus episode of Queen of the Khan,

where I interview a woman who has literally spent years researching and writing about the mere smiths of the world.

This is episode 10, Anatomy of a Khan.

Tori, thank you so much for joining us today.

I really, really, really enjoyed your book.

I finished it in two days and it was just a rip-roaring good time, which is what my Amazon review said.

Thank you.

Congratulations, just what an amazing tale of dozens of dozens of dozens of different con women throughout history.

Yeah, well, thank you for having me.

So your book focuses on female con artists.

Is there a difference between male and female con artists or are all con artists the same?

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