Started: 11/10/08
Finished: 11/16/08
Year: 1998
Pages: 261
Genre: True Crime
Grade: C
Reason for reading: Booksfree.com, fan of the genre
Blurb (from back cover): "On a picturesque street in Sacramento County, California, three healthy saplings stand side by side. But what they symbolize are the deaths of three innocent people-two of them children. And the man who took their lives, then eerily planted trees in their honor...was their own husband and father.
"Hearts went out to Jack Barron when his wife, Irene, died mysteriously in her sleep. Soon after, when his two young children were also found dead in the their beds, suspicions were aroused about Barron. Then, when his fifty-two-year-old mother died, also of asphyxiation in her sleep, the four deaths seemed too coincidental to ignore.
"Was this 'devoted' husband and father really a cold-blooded murderer who smothered his loved ones while they slept? Was he the victim of a bizarre syndrome, whereby a parent kills a child to gain sympathy and attention? With first-hand interviews and exclusive inside information, bestselling author Carlton Smith paints a chilling and compelling portrait of a man driven beyond his control to commit the most unspeakable of acts."
Opinion: Not one of the best true crime novels that I've read. It seems that it was rushly written in order to get the book out. No lengthy court involvement and barely any police involvement. Mostly the story of what happened to the victims. It is still an interesting story.
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