Beverly H. (GainesvilleGirl) - reviewed on 2/3/2010 + 215 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 8

This is the engrossing, true story, of a woman who screams for help while being stabbed repeatedly, and though many neighbors heard her no one calls the police. The reasons those people give for their behavior, or non-behavior, are varied but meaningless. A woman is dead, brutally murdered, and no one tried to help.
Though the police work is pretty much what one would expect from a small town force, somehow with all the bungling, several suspects emerge. One detective in particular ploughs on, revisiting the crime scene many times, and finally, though he finds it hard to believe, comes up with a name. That person is the one who had been least suspected of all.
The author, Thomas French, a reporter for the local newspaper The St. Petersburg Times, (Florida) was closely connected to the crime. He wrote articles following the police leads, and keeping the murder in front of the public, as time wore on and on. He has used those articles and his research for this true crime book. If you like well written true crime, this book will keep you interested from the first to the very last page.
I highly recommend it.

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