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Book Review of Murder in the Heartland

Murder in the Heartland
Murder in the Heartland
Author: M. William Phelps
Genre: Nonfiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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Lisa Montgomery took an alias before she took a woman's life and her baby. A habitual liar, Lisa had to find a child to prove that she had been pregnant...her husband and children believed it and she was running out of options. Phelps' book focuses on the people around Lisa, her husband and ex-husband, her children, her mother, to tell the story and try to explain why a woman might commit such a horrible crime.

Like many true crime stories set in the heartland, this story makes you wonder how pathological the seemingly normal people we interact with everyday really are.