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(CNN)Unlike the antagonists in her steamy romance thrillers, author Nancy Crampton-Brophy did not get away with murder.
A jury found her guilty Wednesday of second-degree murder in the 2018 death of her husband, chef Daniel Brophy, who was gunned down at the culinary school where he taught cooking classes.
Crampton-Brophy, who once wrote a notorious essay titled, "How to Murder Your Husband," showed no visible emotion as the verdict was read in a Portland, Oregon, courtroom.
Prosecutors argued the couple was struggling with debt -- Crampton-Brophy's self-published novels were not big sellers -- and that his death could have left her with more than $1 million in life insurance policies and other assets.