Larger	Beyond Obsession Author: Richard Hammer
	Book Information Publisher: Avon Books (Mm) Book Type: Paperback Rating: 3 ISBN-13: 9780380710379 - ISBN-10: 0380710374 Publication Date: 3/1993 Pages: 373 Book Reviews

On August 5, 1987, the lifeless, savagely mutilated body of respected New England career woman Joyce Aparo was discovered beneath a foot bridge near the Connecticut/Massachusetts border. Weeks later, four teenagers were charged with the gruesome crime. One was the dead woman's daughter, Karin--a pretty and talented young musician who once attempted suicide to escape a daily nightmare of violent physical abuse. Another was Karin's boyfriend, Dennis--a young man so obsessed with the girl he loved that he built a shrine to her in his bedroom...and swore he would do anything to make her happy.

With extraordinary skill, Edgar Award-winning true crime author, Richard Hammer, exposes the many layers of a complex and brutal family homicide-to reveal shocking truths that blue the distinctions between love and hate, villain and victim, sanity and madness.