Delivered from Evil: True Stories of Ordinary People Who Faced Monstrous Mass Killers and Survived

by Ron Franscell

A 12-year-old boy cowers in his closet while a lunatic killer slaughters his family...

A nursing student unwittingly opens her home to the serial killer on her front porch...

An 11-year-old girl drifts alone at sea on a flimsy cork raft for almost four days after a mass murderer kills her vacationing family aboard a chartered yacht...

A brave firefighter suddenly finds himself in the crosshairs of a racist sniper almost nine stories above the ground...

And, astonishingly, they all survived. From Howard Unruh's 1949 shooting rampage through a quiet New Jersey neighborhood to Louisiana serial killer Derrick Todd Lee's reign of terror in 2002, the corpses piled up and few lived to tell the horror.

Now, award-winning journalist Ron Franscell explores the wounded hearts and minds of the ordinary people these monsters couldn't kill. His mesmerizing accounts crackle with gritty details that put the reader in the midst of the carnage-and offer a front-row seat on the complex, painful process of surviving the rest of their haunted lives. In intimate, gripping prose, Franscell takes the reader on a pulse-pounding dash through the murky intersection of pure evil and the potency of the human spirit. This journey into the darkest corners of the American crime-scape is a penetrating work of literary journalism by a writer hailed as one of the most powerful new voices in true crime.

Genres: True Crime, Nonfiction, Crime, History, Biography, Psychology, Society

272 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2011

About the author

Ron has written 19 books. His writing has been compared to Truman Capote, Charles Frazier and Robert Olen Butler—diverse, poetic, evocative and muscular. His new DEAF ROW—a mystery—proves it.


He burst onto the crime scene with THE DARKEST NIGHT (also titled FALL in a 2007 hardcover), which continues to be a bestselling true crime. This intensely personal nonfiction about a monstrous crime that touched his life as a child has been hailed by authors such as Ann Rule and Vincent Bugliosi, as well as critics, as a direct literary descendant of Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood."

His widely acclaimed 2016 true crime, MORGUE: A LIFE IN DEATH (co-authored with renowned medical examiner Dr. Vincent Di Maio) was nominated for an Edgar in 2017.

His most recent true crime, "ALICE & GERALD: A HOMICIDAL LOVE STORY" (Prometheus Books) explores a grisly, real-life case of murder and perverse devotion. "Alice & Gerald" features a femme fatale whose manipulative, cold-blooded character rivals Lady Macbeth, this page-turner revisits a shocking cold case that was finally solved just when the murderers thought they'd never be caught.

Over the years, Ron's books have earned high praise from bestselling authors such as Ann Rule, John Lescroart, Vincent Bugliosi, C.J. Box, Howard Frank Mosher, and Warren Adler. His writing has been compared to Truman Capote, Robert Olen Butler, Norman McLean, Cormac McCarthy and Charles Frazier. Now, meet the author, who now lives in northern New Mexico.

But Ron's books aren't confined to true-crime. THE SOURTOE COCKTAIL CLUB is the true story of an extraordinary -- if slightly macabre -- road trip with his teenage son to the Yukon in search of a mummified human toe .. and a father's reassurance that he hasn't become irrelevant to his son.

His CRIME BUFF'S GUIDE books are quirky travel guides that take true-crime and history-trippers to some 400 outlaw- and crime-related sites all over the USA. Editions include Los Angeles, Texas, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Wyoming, Washington DC, and Maryland.

His debut novel, ANGEL FIRE, was published by Laughing Owl in 1998, and reprinted by Berkley (Penguin/Putnam) in 2000. His popular mystery, THE DEADLINE, was re-published in 2014 by WildBlue Press, followed by a sequel, THE OBITUARY. His book reviews and essays are regularly published in many of America's biggest and best newspapers, such as the Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Denver Post, San Jose Mercury-News, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and others.

DELIVERED FROM EVIL (2011) explores the entangled lives of mass-murderers and their victims, tracing the lives of 10 ordinary people who survived some of America's worst massacres. Auspiciously, it debuted on the day a deranged young gunman killed six and wounded 13 at a Tucson supermarket in one of the most shocking crimes of our day.

Reviews

[Jeanette · Rating 3 out of 5]

Told straight up with poor English and worse prose flow. It also is detail exact. Rather like the old newspapers of prior to 1970 or 1980. News was facts of where, who, what, how and often not much of the why. People were told observations of reality, not theory or agenda preaching or a slanted or occluded who or why. Since about 2000, the news is filtered and twisted. Which is a quite different exposure in the end product.

Lots of photos and sensationalism. Too many and too much.

But it is worth the information alone that it reveals. Oftentimes now, you will hear time and again "worst" or "most tragic" or "unprecedented" when it just is none of those. In fact, within weather, mass murder, serial numbers of victims and accidental deaths- it was almost always way worse previously. I knew about that Bath, MI one.

People didn't have social media or far flung international news as they do in certain detail now- and quickly. So many terrible, terrible occurrences have been forgotten as if they only occur in this or within the last 50 years. No.

Being straight up factual is the best way to report reality. Better form flow could have been done.

[Lady ♥ Belleza · Rating 5 out of 5]

Never disappoints

So can i say Amazon is evil? Haha hope this gets published. They demolished Shelfari.

However this book is first-rate.

Let's be honest, I am a sucker for authors who become my friend on Facebook. It helps when the author is highly recommended by people whose opinions I value.

Although I really like a long book chock full of all the gory details, sometimes I just want to breeze through a book, when that happens a collection of short stories will do. These are all true accounts and in my cheeky Goodreads review all I said was this book was first rate. Most of the accounts of the shootings / murders are, just the facts ma'am, the most detail comes from the surviving victims stories.

Every chapter gives the survivors name and the name of the shooting, the focus is on the victims, I like this, so often the killers get all the press. Some of these events were familiar to me, some I had never heard about. Like the book before this, this book has added more books to my, I want to read this pile.

Some shootings: (listing the ones I already knew about) The McDonald's Massacre in San Ysidro, California; The Luby's Massacre in Killeen Texas; Tim Ursin and the Howard Johnson Sniper (I think I read this on Ron's Facebook Page), New Orleans, Louisiana; the University of Texas Clock Tower shooter, Austin, Texas.

I definitely recommend this book.

[Melinda Clayton · Rating 5 out of 5]

True crime has always been one of my favorite genres because, from a psychological perspective, I find it fascinating. What caused the perpetrator to make the choices he/she made? What is the history of the individual?

Franscell does a wonderful job of exploring not only the motivations and histories of the criminals, but he carries it one step further and explores the motivations and histories of the surviving victims as well - an extremely important piece of the story that's often overlooked.

[Songfire · Rating 1 out of 5]

Good grief, this author certainly managed to hit every square on the bigot's bingo card. There's racism, homophobia, ableism, misogyny and don't get me started on the evangelistic preaching at every available opportunity. Never mind the sensationalist writing and atrocious grammar. Which I suppose I should have anticipated from the book title, but sometimes authors don't get a say in that...

[Meaghan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a bit of a disappointment. I thought it would be more about the psychology of the victims, why some of them coped better than others. But in my opinion it focused far too much on the crimes themselves. Now, the information about the crimes was very interesting, as I had little prior knowledge of some of these mass killings and the book went into great detail. But that wasn't what I was looking for.

There are soooo many books about people's criminal activities and I thought this one was supposed to be different from those, but it really wasn't. It was like the author just wanted to write another book about crimes and dressed it up a bit with the "survivors' stories" angle.

[Fishface · Rating 4 out of 5]

A moving, sometimes overwhelming book. There is not one situation in here that you would wish on your worst enemy. So many true-crime stories forget all the victims or only tell you how they got through the first week. This one helps you understand how they get through for the rest of their lives. Well worth seeking out. Note to author: This book seemed so heavily weighted towards mass murderers a la Charles Whitman. Not that their stories aren't very interesting, but... Maybe you could fit in a few more of those lucky (?) people who escaped kidnappers or serial killers in different settings for future editions? I guess I expected to see at least one Jonestown survivor in here...

[♥ Marlene♥ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Here I was not liking short true crime stories. How wrong I was. After Online Killers I picked this one and it was just as good.
What I liked was these were stories I had not heard before except the Charles (W)hitman story. I have been wishing for a book about him for 10 years or so so I was glad with the short story about him.
What made me like this book even more was that the author when he described heights and stuff he would use the American and add the European conversion. I wish all writers would do that.
The stories were very interesting and now I want to read more short stories.

[Dierdra McGill · Rating 4 out of 5]

It has been said a time or two that a serial killer is remembered, but how often do you remember the victims’ names? Do you even know if any of them ever survived? Delivered from Evil brings the victims back into the spotlight and shares the stories of the ones whom survived these killers.
This is a collection of short stories, but all are about a victim who survived a serial killer. There are some heartbreaking stories, and some heartwarming ones. This is not an easy book to read as some stories involve small children and the book offers some graphic in nature pictures. For example, some pictures show victims lying dead on the ground, one of a woman stabbed to death in her bed, and one of a man who shot himself in the head. I do not mind these pictures personally but if you do I would stay away from this book.
The writing style of this book was more like an article than a book so that was a bit annoying at times to me and threw off the flow of the book until I taught myself to just ignore the words in grey. Which was hard for me at first. I also did not like that matter of fact tone in some places where there is no longer anyway to know what a person was thinking or feeling at the time. I suppose it is meant to make the book easier to read, but I would prefer to stick to facts only.
If you can stand a bit of blood and gore, or are just a hardcore true crime reader than I think that you would most likely enjoy this book.

[Alison · Rating 3 out of 5]

What "Jaws" did for the ocean, this book does for fast-food restaurants--I can't walk into a McDonald's now without wondering about the safest places to hide. Ron Franscell is a talented writer, eloquent and meticulous. He provides amazing insights into the minds of real-life monsters, the ones who haunt our nightmares. In the middle of the chapter about the McDonald's attack in San Ysidro in 1984, I turned on the news to hear that a man had walked into an IHOP in Carson City and shot 11 people. Sadly, no shortage of material for the sequel.

[npaw · Rating 2 out of 5]

The writing was almost as painful as the stories. Loved the idea but poorly executed.

[Beth · Rating 3 out of 5]

Let's begin this review with this: the writing in this book is crap. Absolute and utter crap. It seemed like the author learned to write from lurid tabloids. However, the content was really interesting. Some of these people had interactions with truly heinous people, and it was interesting to see how they've coped with what they went through. There were some accounts that really didn't fit the bill of this book, at least by the subtitle: someone injured by a sniper's bullet - although tragic - does not have it as bad as someone who saw a murderer slaughter her whole family, in my opinion.

One note, to the publishers/editors/author (whoever was in charge): What was with the annoying "quotes" throughout the book? It looked like another thing learned from a lurid tabloid. Here's what bothered me: the "quotes" were from the text, and sometimes the placement would be odd. Like, the one time that the "quote" was the very sentence I just read. After the second chapter, I learned to ignore them, but they were still annoying.

Also, another note: Do be aware that there are some GRAPHIC pictures in this book. There is one of a naked dead woman, and another one where you can see a dead child. I'm not sure that was entirely appropriate to put in here - I really could have gone my whole life without seeing those pictures.

[Cindy (BKind2Books) · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked it and the concept - a book focusing on the victims and they coped and survived some terrible mass murderers - was fresh and interesting. However, someone - are there no editors anymore? - needed to restructure this book to give it better flow. The author jumps from case to case with no rhyme or reason; there is no way of figuring out what is the theme. They are not organized by date or severity...not even alphabetically...it's kind of like it was just randomly tossed into a pile and however they landed.

Aside from that, the book seemed to be well-researched and the author noted that he did attempt to interview those involved where possible. There were 10 cases included here starting in the late 40s and going up to the early 2000s.

Included are:

Survivor Charles Cohen of the spree killer Howard Unruh who in 1949 killed 13 people in 12 minutes, including Charles' mother, father and grandmother. Charles was 12 and his mother hid him in a closet as Unruh entered their downstairs pharmacy and then came up to the family's living area. Unruh went up and down this neighborhood killing children and businessmen, people in cars. Cohen was sent to live with relatives and buried this deep inside. He never spoke of this to his family, until Unruh who had been sent to a maximum security mental institution asked to be sent to a lesser treatment center to prepare him to be released. Cohen then became a crusader, determined that his suffering and that of the other families be publicized. He succeeded in keeping Unruh in a mental asylum until his death.

Survivor Brent Doonan of the Atlanta Day-Trader Shooting in 1999 that killed 9 people (and the killer also murdered his wife and 2 kids, bringing his total to 12) and wounded 7 others. Doonan lost almost 7 pints of blood from his wounds but pulled through. He left his job and Atlanta and went back to his family's business in Kansas, but found his choice was to move past it and find his peace.

Survivor Keith Thomas of the California McDonald's Massacre in 1984 that killed 21 and wounded 19 others. Thomas was a young boy of 12 when he survived this but watched his best friend Mateo and Mateo's mother killed. He did not get help in dealing with this and became troubled, turning to gangs, drugs, and violence. There wasn't really anyone that knew about children and PTSD at the time and by the time it was recognized he was severely damaged. It took many years - and this young man's life took further downturns - jail, rehabs, living on the street. But he has finally emerged on the other side - back to school, sober, recovered. He has moved on with his life.

Survivor Suzanna Hupp of the Luby's Massacre in 1991 that killed 23 and wounded 27 others. Among the dead were Suzanna's mother and father who were there with her eating lunch. Suzanna had left her gun in the car because Texas law at the time was that you could not carry into businesses. Afterwards, Suzanna was elected to the state legislature and lobbied to change this law to allow for concealed carry. [It was noted that "Killeen lost twice as many citizens to the Luby's killing than to the brief Gulf War ...almost nineteen years later...Nidal Malik Hasan would open fire with two handguns on soldiers just after lunch at Fort Hood, killing 13 and wounding at least 30 in Killeen's second mass murder in 2 decades."]

Survivor Tim Ursin of the Howard Johnson Sniper (1973) who killed 9 people and wounded 12 others in New Orleans in 2 separate attacks. Ursin was a firefighter attempting to rescue people from the hotel when the sniper fired on him wounding him. He would eventually lose part of his arm. He became a fishing charter operator - under the name Captain Hook. "He wants only to live without the hate that consumed the man who tried to kill him for no better reason that the color of his skin."

Survivor Roland Ehlke of the Texas Tower Sniper (1966) who killed 17 (one died years later of their wounds) and wounded 31 in 90 minutes. Ehlke was wounded but none were serious. He had been going to do 2 years in the Peace Corps but decided to return to Wisconsin and started seminary.

Survivor Dianne Alexander of the serial killer Derrick Todd Lee who murdered at least 7 women in the Baton Rouge area in the 1990s to early 2000s. She was the only (known) survivor of his attacks - her son came home during his attack and she had cooperated with him father than fighting him. She did move on with her life but she had to sell the house where she was attacked. She did have PTSD with anger and depression, but sought comfort in her faith.

Survivor Anthony Majzer of serial killer David Maust who had at least 5 known victims, mostly young teens. Anthony was a felon who was almost another victim of Maust, but managed to get away. He was paroled in 2005 and has been clean for several years, started a family, and working at a trade. He is trying to find a better life for himself.

Survivor Missy Jenkins of the West Paducah High School shooting in 1997 that killed 3 and injured 5. Missy was paralyzed after she was shot. She used her fame to talk about the shooting and its aftermath and forgiveness. She was also the recipient of a new high-tech brace that could help paraplegics walk and was able to walk in her graduation in June 2000. She has spoke in the Million Mom March against gun violence, and in 2004 got a degree in social work so she could work with troubled teens.

Survivor Terry Jo Duperrault of the Bluebelle Murders in 1961. The captain of the Bluebelle - Julian Harvey - appeared to be a serial murderer of his wives in addition to the Bluebelle murders. Terry Jo was the sole survivor of the week long cruise in the Bahamas with her family. She was adrift on the open ocean for almost 4 days when found. She was returned to her remaining family but received no counseling or other help. The family basically ignored this entire event and she lost a huge chunk of her childhood, her siblings, her mother, and the father that she adored. One positive that came - almost immediately from this - was the change of boats' life-saving equipment to bright orange to be more visible.

Ten cases and so many ways to deal with tragedy. The human mind and spirit are so resilient.

[Miz · Rating 2 out of 5]

A book that traces victims of crimes to what happened to them after the collective memory of the horrific events that they endured subsided. Some of the stories were interesting, some were tragic. I'm not giving this book 2/5 due to the survivors stories - more the method of storytelling which turned on sensationalism.

[Ruth · Rating 3 out of 5]

I did not care for the writing style of this author. Each horrific story is focused in one chapter and I found the details to be of the crime, not the story of the ordinary people whose life was changed by the incident. It seems obvious that, by living through these crimes, the people have a different focus on the rest of their life.

[Bill reilly · Rating 5 out of 5]

After reading Franscell's The Darkest Night and Shadowman, I found this book by the author to be as well researched as those stories. The difference here is that they cover survivors of mass murderers. It all begins with a bang and Howard Unruh's shooting spree in Camden, NJ in 1949. Charles Cohen hid in a closet while his mother and father were gunned down by Howie. The nut ball was almost released as Cohen prevented it by testifying repeatedly for many years. Mark Barton was an obsessed day trader who mowed down workers at two brokerage firms. Brent Noonan survived and wrote a book. James Huberty had it his way at a McDonald's in Caly and ended it with a self inflicted gun shot. George Kennard ended his life in the same manner after killing twenty three in twelve minutes. In the interest of diversity, a Black Panther, Mark Essex, is included. He murdered nine "white devils." A survivor, Tim Ursin, prayed an Act of Contrition and was given Last Rites and survived. Charles Whitman, a former Marine, picked off fourteen from the U. of Texas tower. Cap Ehlke survived a gun shot and became a Lutheran minister. More killers are included and the final chapter is the best. Julian Harvey needs an entire book of his own. The fighter pilot was a wheeler dealer who married five times and attracted women like a flame to a moth. Arthur Dupperault hired him to take his family on his sailboat with tragic results. Julian flipped his lid and killed Art, his wife and his son. Terry Jo, the eleven year-old daughter, escaped on a cork raft. She has written a book and it might be my next read; an amazing story. Franscell is good and this is a worthy read.

[Diana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tales of people who survived murderous rampages.

The true crime genre has always been a little bit voyeuristic, with intense fascination of these mass murders and serial killers and all the gory details. But it does seem like the killers are glorified, so the premise of this book, focusing on the survivors and victims, was a refreshing change. However, it still ended up being quite the lurid tales, almost gleefully delving into the crimes. I was also a little surprised there were real crime scene photos of victims, which I felt were unnecessary, and only part of the shock value. I did like how the survivors spoke on how they coped (or didn't cope), because too often once the crime is done, survivors are forgotten.

[Ruth Turner · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read some of the Goodreads reviews of this book where "tabloid style" writing was mentioned. I have to agree to a certain extent, and admit to quite a few eyeroll moments.

I'd never heard of these cases before, so it was an interesting read for me. Not only does author give graphic details of murders he also delves into the history of the perpetrators and their motivations. We also learn what has happened to some of the survivors in the intervening years.

Although nothing can excuse these dreadful crimes, I have to admit to a light tugging of the heartstrings for a couple of these murderers, especially Howard Unruh.

A good read. I enjoyed it.

[London · Rating 3 out of 5]

Something about the way the book was written came off as very cheesy despite the very real and traumatic stories.

[Lyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fascinating stories of brave people who survived terrifying encounters with mass and serial killers.

[Antonio Nunez · Rating 4 out of 5]

One couldn’t call Franscell’s book an enjoyable one. Reading multiple narratives about all kinds of people who survived mass murder or serial killers is not a comfortable experience. Most of the narratives follow a similar pattern: a person or family is quietly engaging in his or her business in apparent normality, when suddenly madness and violence erupt and kill many people, whereas the protagonist survives, often hideously hurt. The perpetrator is always a male, usually young, usually white, who often comes from precarious surroundings and usually is inadequate as a man. The reasons for the violence are often indiscernible. Many cases are famous. The Luby’s shooting. The San Ysidro McDonald’s massacre. The university of Texas tower shootings. Some are lesser known, including the pathetic 14 year old misfit who ended up killing three girls, one of whom was his good friend, and maiming another, leaving her paralyzed. The book very clearly describes the consequences of this type of violence on the survivors, who sometimes take decades to recover, while others never do. The author highlights lives cut short by madness and despair and the social responsibility that arises when many of the killers first sought psychological help and received none. This is particularly sad in the case of Charles Whitman of University of Texas fame, who specifically discussed his intentions with a university psychiatrist and was sent home because he posed no danger. The saddest story of all for me was that of Terry Duperrault, who aged 11 was the only member of her family to survive a psychopathic ship skipper who murdered her parents and her two siblings just to cover his having murdered his sixth wife, whom he killed for a double indemnity insurance he had taken out earlier. The family seemed particularly charming in this telling, and Terry’s survival after the skipper left her on a sinking yacht, to drown, was truly miraculous. The girl survived 4 days without food or water (this damaged her kidneys) by hanging unto a cork float as fish nibbled, in high seas. And that is another takeaway from t he book: in these liminar situations survival often depends on the me rest of chances. Although, as Luby’s survivor Suzanna Hupp says, when sitting in public places such as restaurants, it pays to sit with one’s back to the wall, facing the entry and, if one has it and it is legal to do so, to carry a handgun. Just in case.

[Evan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought Ron did an amazing job telling these stories. This was the fifth of five books I bought and read from Amazon for about $1.99 a piece - I took a flyer on a bunch of cheap Kindle books I thought sounded interesting. Two were disappointments, two were good, and this one was great. He sought to tell the story of people who survived, and I thought he did an admiral job of telling the whole story, but focusing on the survivor rather than the murderer. Some things that stood out to me:
1) Gun violence and school shootings have been going on since forever. But like the author points out repeatedly, the acts of mass violence are forgotten. America's deadliest mass public rampage was a 1927 school bombing in Bath, Michigan that killed 45 people.
2) The survivors are so different. One woman left her handgun in her car because her concealed permit did not allow her to take the gun into public buildings. Her parents were killed because she didn't have her gun with her. She spent the rest of her life fighting for gun rights and became a legislator. Another girl was shot and paralyzed at 15. She has spent her adult life fighting for gun control. Two victims, two completely different responses.
3) Most of the murderers in this book were not cold blooded killers - they were mentally ill or extremely lonely and ostracized.
4) The victims' stories are so awful. The acts perpetrated by the killers are so heinous. Kids who survived suffered the rest of their lives, some never really recovering.
5) People were able to forgive their assailant. The girl who was paralyzed told her mom she forgave the shooter the same night she heard her diagnosis. Another boy whose best friend and mom was killed spent his life in and out of rehab. Eventually he forgave the man who ruined his life.

The survivors stories were usually uplifting, but everything about their situation was so sad. I really enjoyed Franscell's story telling.

[Malcolm · Rating 2 out of 5]

10 stories of mass murder with plenty of detail, not all of it interesting. The experiences of survivors of these killings sounds like an interesting angle, but this ended up reading like a homework assignment. If there was insight to be gained from their personal stories, I missed it. I was a quite young when the UT Tower and San Ysidro McDonald's killings happened, so I was moved by reflecting on how shocking these events were at the time, given how ordinary they have become.

[Jane Thompson · Rating 4 out of 5]

True Crime

An interesting book, the author tells stories of people who were spared tho we who were serial or mass murderers. All of the cases are well known, but it is intriguing to learn the stories of those who.,mostly by luck, were spared from death. The author tells the stories of the later lives and how it affected them.

[Casey · Rating 3 out of 5]

would have rated higher but the way he talked about mark essex and 1960s racism just sat really badly with me, author prejudice pretty clear there. not condoning what the guy did! but it seemed like he was skeptical about the racism he faced and what part it may have played in him reaching where he ended up, which just felt off

[Jack · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read as an ebook via Hoopla. Odd design choices made the book feel more repetitive than it needed to be. Some parts were awkwardly written.

However, it's an interesting topic. The book is well researched, and the interviews are compelling reading.

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

A really well written true crime book with compelling survivor stories. I learned so much from this book, crimes so chilling and terrifying that they have haunted me in the days I have read this. The strength of the survivors is inspiring and I’m in awe of them.

[Pixismiler · Rating 4 out of 5]

For this book he wanted to focus on the survivors. He did tell stories of the killers. I agree this needed to be done. However I do believe the language he chose did also help to perpetuate the dramatization of it. Very good book.

[Megan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book. I love that we get to hear from the survivors, and not just learn about the murderers. I want to read more books like this.

[Penny · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved it...

[Kimberly · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is brutal. It's a very good read but very hard to get through.