Started: 12/9/2021
Finished: 12/12/2021
Year: 2004
Pages: 302
Genre: Memoir/true crime
Grade: B
Reason for reading: booklender.com book
Type: Trade paperback
Blurb (from Amazon): "A Rip in Heaven is Jeanine Cummins’ story of a night in April, 1991, when her two cousins Julie and Robin Kerry, and her brother, Tom, were assaulted on the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge, which spans the Mississippi River just outside of St. Louis. When, after a harrowing ordeal, Tom managed to escape the attackers and flag down help, he thought the nightmare would soon be over. He couldn’t have been more wrong. Tom, his sister Jeanine, and their entire family were just at the beginning of a horrific odyssey through the aftermath of a violent crime, a world of shocking betrayal, endless heartbreak, and utter disillusionment. It was a trial by fire from which no family member would emerge unscathed."
Opinion: A truly tragic story. Well written from an insider point of view. One of the better true crime stories that I've read.
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