Best True Crime Book So Far This Century? Yep.

About halfway through the Phelps tome, I was prepared to write, "Easily one of the top ten true crime books I've read in the last five years, and I read 'em all." While true, let's up the ante: this is a GREAT book which transcends the true crime genre and should have been first issued in hardcover for those who will, someday, pass along their personal libraries to children or grandchildren: this book is good enough for the PERMANENCE of hardcover, where it could take pride of place alongside Capote's "In Cold Blood," et al. An AMAZING book, one whose only disappointment is that it, like all books, ends. I could have read another two hundred pages of a masterwork of this nature: fascinating subject, terrific research, an ear for the language and an eye for the image; Phelps has all of these crucial factors going for him. (If I must kvetch, let it be said that, in a book in which I--an old English teacher with a still keen eye--found no typos in the text itself, I did discover a rather distressing misspelling which should have been caught in copyediting, or at the printing plant: Chapter 66 has somehow become "Capter 66." And even that makes for an interesting first edition, as one rarely sees an error of this nature in a chapter heading. I TOLD you this book has it all!) Reader, DO NOT MISS this one.
Hit that "order" button right now. An incredible achievement in non-fiction, this.

Interesting

Being personnally affected by this book (I AM "TORI ELLIS", "CAROLINE PARKER" IS MY STEP-SISTER), I found it to be more truthful than I expected, 98%. Mr Phelps did an excellent job depicting those involved, with only slight discrepencies. Would definitely recommend to readers enjoying true crime.

Can't put it down !!

This story is incredible, one of the most unbelievable stories I've ever read. The ending is fantastic. This will be a movie someday. Mr Phelps does a great job with this story. A MUST read.