Started: 10/14/08
Finished: 10/29/08
Year: 2008
Pages: 407
Genre: True Crime
Grade: B+
Reason for reading: review for MyShelf.com
Blurb (from back cover): "In October 2002, Susan Polk, the soft-spoken mother of three teenage boys, was arrested for stabbing her husband and former therapist, Dr. Felix Polk, to death. Three years later she was tried for first degree murder, choosing to act as her own attorney in a trial that rapidly devolved into one of the most outrageous media circuses in modern history. To a crowded courtroom, Susan Polk, presented her defense-a bizarre story of unethical therapies, abuse, repressed memories, and satanic rituals-and, in doing so, exposed her madness. Carol Pogash was there.
" Seduced by Madness is the remarkably compelling, profoundly disturbing true story of the severe dysfunction of an affluent American family, as told by the leading journalist who worked the case. It is a spellbinding re-creation of a troubled life, a marriage, a murder, and a terrifying, inexorable descent into madness."
Opinion: It is obvious that the author was there throughout the whole trial and gotten key interviews with several of the people involved. For a more complete review, please check out MyShelf
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