A review by sierablane
The Amish Wife Unraveling the Lies, Secrets, and Conspiracy That Let a Killer Go Free by Gregg Olsen

informative slow-paced

2.0

I’ve read 5 of Olsen’s books; 2 fiction and 3 nonfiction. This is definitely my least favorite of his nonfiction. His writing is honestly very unorganized, and there sure are a lot of not-Ida-Stutzman-related tangents and asides for a book supposedly dedicated to justice for Ida Stutzman. I mean seriously? What need was there for a chapter about Dahmer? And woo hoo, here’s your medal for allegedly finding Stella Nickell’s burnt bottles of excedrin missed by the fbi… this book was, in relation to the Stutzman case, speculative in the most unhelpful way. Reads more like a memoir of someone chasing long gone glory, and definitely is capitalizing on the fact that most involved are dead