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Book Review of If You Really Loved Me: A True Story of Desire and Murder

If You Really Loved Me: A True Story of Desire and Murder
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David Brown was the consummate entrepreneur;a computer wizaed and millionaire by age thirty-two.When his beautiful young wife was shot to death as she slept,Brown's fourteen year old daughter,Cinnamon confessed to killing her stepmother. The California courts sentenced her harshly;twenty-seven years to life. But in the wake of Cinnamon's murder conviction,thanks in part to teo determined lawman,the twisted private world of David Brown himself unfolded with astonishing clarity-revealing a trail of perverse love twisted secrets,and evil mind games. A complex and often dangerous investigation suggested a horrifying scenario: was the seemingly bland David Brown really a stone-cold killer-who convinced his own daughter to prove her love by killing for him?A man who turned young women into his own personal slaves,who collected nearly $1million in insurance money,and married hie dead wife's teenage sister. David Brown was a sociopath who would stop at nothing a deadly charmer who almost got away with everything....