Author

Publication

1992 - Pocket Star Books, New York, United States

Language

English

Word Count

122,000 words, Guess

Page Count

488 pages

Identifiers

and 4 more
  • Better World BooksO7-CTA-024
  • Better World BooksO7-BKL-878
  • Better World Books9780671775391
  • Open LibraryOL15103314M

Classifications

  • DDC364.152309756186
  • LCCHV6533.N8 M37 1992

Description

One hot summer night in 1988, Bonnie Von Stein's second husband was murdered in their bed, Bonnie herself stabbed, beaten, and left for dead beside him. It looked like a brutal but tragically typical case: Von Stein was newly wealthy, and Bonnie's troubled son Chris, seemed like the obvious suspect. But Chris turned out to have an air-tight alibi and new leads suggested the crime could be much more complex. The trail led to Chris’s two strange new friends from college and a real-life enactment of a bizarre Dungeons and Dragons fantasy adventure, and it implicated Bonnie's teenage daughter as well. In Cruel Doubt, Joe McGinniss probes the dark heart of family life and small-town North Carolina society to uncover a fascinating and terrifying story that is at once a chilling murder mystery, a tense courtroom drama, and a heartbreaking account of a mother forced to doubt her own children. Probing the heart of a small-town North Carolina family, the author of Fatal Vision brilliantly weaves together this riveting account of ordinary people whose lives and illusions are shattered by a horrifying murder. Subject of an NBC-TV mini-series.

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Other Editions

  • Cruel doubtPocket Star Books1992

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