𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙈𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙮: 𝙂𝙧𝙚𝙜𝙜 𝙊𝙡𝙨𝙚𝙣

".At 5:02 p.m. on June 5, 1986, an emergency call came into the local sheriff’s office in the small town of Auburn, Washington State. A distressed housewife, Stella Nickell, said her husband, Bruce, was having a seizure.

Officers rushed to the Nickells' mobile home to find Stella standing frozen at the door…. Bruce was on the floor fighting for his life. As Stella became the beneficiary of over $175,000 in a life insurance payout, forensics discovered that Bruce had consumed painkillers laced with cyanide. A week later,

15-year-old Hayley was getting ready for another school day. Her mom, Sue, called out "I love you" before heading into the bathroom and moments later collapsed on the floor. Sue never regained consciousness, and the autopsy revealed she had been poisoned by cyanide-tainted headache pills. Just like Bruce. While a daughter grieved the sudden and devastating loss of her mother, a young woman, Cindy, was thinking about her mom, Stella.

She thought about the years of neglect and abuse, the tangled web of secrets Stella had shared with her, and Cindy contemplated turning her mom into the FBI….Gripping and heartbreaking, Gregg Olsen uncovers the shocking true story of a troubled family. He delves into a complex mother-daughter relationship rooted in mistrust and deception, and the journey of the sweet curly-haired little girl from Oregon whose fierce ambition to live the American dream led her to make the ultimate betrayal. A sensational real-life mystery, American Mother will hook those fascinated by The Staircase and Making of a Murderer."

B-RANDS REVIEW: 3/5

Judge Gavels

Hello Friends!

Thanks so much for stopping by and checking out this book review.

I want to start with the cover of this book. Just some of the cover alone I was convinced this wasn't going to be that great of a read. I gave it three stars because it lacked fluidity and there was a lot of information in the book that you'd have to keep track of or you'd find yourself like me going back and re-reading certain aspects.

I understand that the book wanted to present a lot of facts and evidence however, I found myself saying 'If they don't get on with the damn point!'. This book did have me torn between who did it. If it wasn't for that I honestly would've given it one less star. This is a time-consuming and no-background noise kind of book. I wouldn't recommend this book to my friends to read but maybe you'll read this and think yeah she had a point.

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So, who do you think did it?

• It was Stella
• It was Cindy
• It was both of them!

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