Great read right up until the legal process started to unfold, at this point there was an obscene amount of filler, so much so that I started skimming through the pages searching for anything interesting pertaining to the case. There was quite a few times the author would drone on about irrelevant details (e.g. karlas stay in the hospital droned on forever about all the meds she was on and the dosage per mg and any changes in dosages, what she liked to watch on t.v., writting letters to her friends, the people she talked to, and then we moved on to how everyone on the case spent the holidays and how the detectives ordered pizza and everyone had dogs so we had to discuss that too, and blah blah blah) then finally it gets back on track with how the police presented the evidence and so forth.