Michele G. (shele24) from LAS CRUCES, NM wrote on 12/3/2007...
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Great book, the first several hundred pages gives you the "history" of the crimes. The last several 100 is the trial, etc. What a nut Mark Hoffman was!
LaVonne W. (Grnemae) from FOREST LAKE, MN wrote on 11/9/2007...
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A shocking true story that draws on exclusive interviews and secret never-before published documents to reconstruct a tale of enormous greed. This will hold you spellbound until the end.
Nora S. (biblegirl06) from SUWANEE, GA wrote on 10/6/2006...
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A first-rate true crime thriller and detective story of the hightest order. The kind of book you grab eagerly and can't put down!
On the morning of October 15, 1985, two bombs exploded in different parts of Salt Lake City, killing two people. The next day, a third bomb blew the roof off a car belonging to Mark Hofmann, a highly respected documents dealther, who survived the blast.
The only link between the three vitims seemed to be their membership in the Mormon Church. But investiagtors would soon uncover another connection--one of the most elaborate and destructive forgery scams of the twentieth century, rocking the very foundation and legitimacy of the Mormon Church and its multimillion-dollar empire.
This fascinating, shocking, true story draws on exclusive interviews and secret, never-before-published documents that reconstufct the most riveting tale of God and greed ever exposed. It is an edge-of-the-seat thriller that will hold you in thrall.
Nancy J. (firecracker) from DENVER, CO wrote on 2/19/2006...
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Very interesting. Nothing is as unbelievable as the real life.
Pam P. (Meowkatt) from KENOSHA, WI wrote on 2/11/2006...
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On October 15, 1985, two pipe bombs shook the calm of Salt Lake City, Utah, killing two people. The only link-both victims belonged to the Mormon Church. The next day, a third bomb was detonated in the parked car of church-going family man, Mark Hoffman. Incredibly, he survived. It wasn't until authorities questioned the strangely evasive Hoffman that another, more shocking link between the victims emerged...
It was the appearance of an alleged historic document that challenged the very bedrock of Mormon teaching, questioned the legitimacy of its founder, and threatened to disillusion millions of its faithful-unless the Mormon hierarchy buried the evidence.
Drawing on exclusive interviews, The Mormon Murders reconstructs a secret conspiracy of God, greed, and murder that would expose one of the most ingenious con men in the annals of crime-and shake the very foundation of a multibillion-dollar empire to its core.
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Manuel S. from WASHINGTON TR, UT wrote on 2/3/2007...
Yeah, I see that the "empire" has been shaken by this book...
Michelle H. (MightyChelle) from POINT, TX wrote on 1/29/2007...
The deatailsof this true story is mind blowing! A rare glimps into the life some people have in Utah as a Morman.