Thomas & Mercer, $24.95 (460p) ISBN 978-1-5420-0522-7 It also well documents and shows you exactly what this means.
Feel like I have to go take a shower first and bleach my mind before I say anything... Oh, that was a bad choice of words considering.The best book Gregg Olsen has ever written. When I chose this Amazon First Read, I wasn't sure whether I wanted to read such a story, however it peaked my interest from my TBR.
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She had a switch. I mean, the story is obviously terrible, and would be no matter what, but couple that with the awful writing, lack of editing, repetitive phrasing, and cutesy metaphors and puns - and you get this dumpster fire.I suppose it's because I'm a crime writer, but I've always been drawn to true crime books.
He hasn’t written TC in some time so I thought I would give him a try. There's a reason you don't understand. She was a monster. “Shelly delighted in making other people hurt.
Nikki, however, won’t talk to him because of his role in her personal abuse.Mercifully, the three women have been able to move on with their lives. Happy to horribly mean, calm to hellaciously evil and vengeful. It was an excellent book, that brings to light, how crazy some people are. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. She tortured her children, manipulated everyone and should have been on death row, for what she did. Start by marking “If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood” as Want to Read: How can a mother have such evil in her heart, coming up with so many different acts of horrendous cruelty, to not only her children but to other victims she brought into her home and torA shocking and heart-wrenching story of physical and emotional abuse which absolutely broke my heart. It's a compelling portrait of psychosis, borderline personality disorder, and the power of denial. This book is so well written and told in such a way you really feel each person and take this journey with them. Michelle Knotek is a former Raymond, Washington, woman who was convicted in 2004 of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the torture and deaths of Kathy Loreno and Ronald Woodworth, who were both boarders in Knotek's home. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined. Knotek has since been convicted of her murder.Shelly (right), with her husband, Dave (left), allegedly coerced him into killing her nephew.This is why Jacob Blake had a warrant out for his arrestDozens of missing kids — including 15 sex trafficking victims — found in GeorgiaCelebrity deaths in 2020: Actors, singers and more we lost this yearCelebrity deaths in 2020: Actors, singers and more we lost this year‘Black Panther’ star Chadwick Boseman dead of cancer at 43‘Black Panther’ star Chadwick Boseman dead of cancer at 43Libbie Mugrabi and ‘Mighty Ducks’ star Brock Pierce hit the HamptonsLibbie Mugrabi and ‘Mighty Ducks’ star Brock Pierce hit the Hamptons A mother and wife who was a psychopathic, narcissistic, abusive, manipulating, murder. Wow! I could not believe that this mother, wife, aunt, and friend was able to manipulate, torture, harass and kill people in this day and time.
Well you hear about crimes and crazy things ppl do or split minute decisions made in haste, but I have never heard of someone like the mother in this story.
Sometimes things that really have happened are far worse than anything one can dream up in their mind. For anyone who is interested in observing how one individuI suppose it's because I'm a crime writer, but I've always been drawn to true crime books. I see it's been a few years since he wrote a true crime book so the break's done him the world of good as this one is fascinating.
I’m in shock right now, I don’t know what to say. “Look what you made me do,” was Shelly’s response, per “If You Tell,” as blood dripped from her daughter’s face and body.Olsen writes about how she attacked Sami so often that the girl wore pants to cover her bruises, lest teachers ask anything.When Shelly’s teenage nephew, Shane, came to live with the family in 1988, she’d pressure him and 13-year-old Nikki to slow-dance in the living room while nude, per the book.No one really knows why Shelly — who, according to “If You Tell,” also lied that she had cancer and even shaved off her eyebrows to fake the effects of her “treatment” — committed her atrocities.
It was an excellent book, that brings to light, how crazy some people are. Such a desperate situation in which they learned that the only way to keep safe from a monstrous mother who showed no mercy was to look the other way. Horrified.This was an intense book about mental, physical abuse and murder. Tho, I suffered such cruelty. She loves to inflict maximum punishment and humiliation on her victims, who are her own three children, along with a young male nephew she’s taken in, along with her former hairdresser Kathy, who moved in to help out at aThis is a crazy good book by Gregg Olsen about a really dysfunctional family that becomes painful at times to read.