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pbraue13's review against another edition
5.0
Made me so angry I threw the book at the wall because the murdering husband in this book is so damn selfish and evil - when you think he won't stoop lower suddenly he's in the damn earth's crust! What a jerk! But expertly told by Ann Rule who has so much sympathy for the victim!
5/5 stars
5/5 stars
bookwormloverofbooks's review against another edition
dark
emotional
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
qu33nofbookz's review against another edition
4.0
An in-depth look into the tragic murder of a successful lawyer and mother of three by her truly evil, narcissistic, psychopathic ex-husband.
Cheryl Keeton married to a man, Brad Cunningham, whose the living embodiment your worst nightmares are made of fights for her children during her divorce and pays the ultimate price. After her death, her family, friends, and coworkers play the most exhaustive game of cat and mouse for almost a decade as they try to get justice and bring her murder to court.
Digging into Cheryl's and her husband's past from childhood to the present is chilling. The number of people pulled into the case who all have such horrific experiences with Brad makes one wonder how this evil went unpunished for so long.
Cheryl Keeton married to a man, Brad Cunningham, whose the living embodiment your worst nightmares are made of fights for her children during her divorce and pays the ultimate price. After her death, her family, friends, and coworkers play the most exhaustive game of cat and mouse for almost a decade as they try to get justice and bring her murder to court.
Digging into Cheryl's and her husband's past from childhood to the present is chilling. The number of people pulled into the case who all have such horrific experiences with Brad makes one wonder how this evil went unpunished for so long.
ashliha's review against another edition
5.0
So I started this book quite awhile ago as a part of my two-books-a-weed goal and it's probably taken me about three weeks to read just this one. Not because it's so insanely long or boring, but because it's so intense that you have to put it down to breath. It's not the kind of intensity where you're waiting to find out who-done-it. You know. It's intense because you're watching him get away with murder, literally; and more. The fact that it's a true story makes it even more difficult.
Brad is a true sociopath and more. How he gets away with it seems incomprehensible, especially if you don't understand the situation. I'm lucky enough (or unlucky) to understand, and a more-minimal,-but-same-in the-big-picture basis, and the book is haunting. If he had gotten away with it in the end, this probably would have been one of the worst books, emotionally, that I've ever read. Because he didn't, it's by far one of the very, very best.
Brad is a true sociopath and more. How he gets away with it seems incomprehensible, especially if you don't understand the situation. I'm lucky enough (or unlucky) to understand, and a more-minimal,-but-same-in the-big-picture basis, and the book is haunting. If he had gotten away with it in the end, this probably would have been one of the worst books, emotionally, that I've ever read. Because he didn't, it's by far one of the very, very best.