{"product_id":"abandoned-prayers-an-incredible-true-story-of-murder-obsession-and-amish-secrets-9781250823977","title":"Abandoned Prayers: An Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession, and Amish Secrets","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gregg Olsen\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: St. Martin's Griffin\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Murder - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A tough new voice rises in the ranks of true-crime writers. Even the reigning giants of the genre are taking notice and offering praise .\" -\u003ci\u003eSeattle Post-Intelligencer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcclaim for the True-Crime Classics of Gregg Olsen \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbandoned Prayers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An absorbing, sobering, disturbing book.\"--\u003ci\u003eOmaha World-Herald\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBitter Almonds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Absolutely fascinating...One of the most devious female minds in crime history. Stella Nickell has won her dubious spot in the annals of crime-thanks to Gregg Olsen's research and reporting.\"--Ann Rule \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[A] truly remarkable book. The trailer park babes of \u003ci\u003eBitter Almonds\u003c\/i\u003e leap off the page, fingernails sharpened and aimed for your eyes...meticulous reporting and engrossing, vivid detail plunges the reader into a world of schemes and dreams. This is one of the best true crime books of the '90s.\"-Jack Olsen, author of \u003ci\u003eSon: A Psychopath and His Victims\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e\"I\" The Creation of a Serial Killer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A real page-turner...a compelling and fascinating tale of family psychopathology taken to the extreme.\"--Jonathan Kellerman \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Masterfully written...a tale of intricate suspense.\"-Rod Colvin, author of \u003ci\u003eEvil Harvest\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eConfessions of an American Black Widow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"More interesting than the crime itself is Olsen's portrait of Nelson as a brash, trashy, manipulative sexpot...watching Nelson as she almost gets away with murder will fascinate long after the last page.\" -\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This time Gregg Olsen has given us a very sexy book that is as disturbing as it is seductive. One reads it compulsively and wonders afterwards 'Why did I like this so much?' as if one had not so much read it as had a very destructive affair with it. A dangerous and informative book, as irresistible as its painfully, wonderfully vicious heroine-or villain, whichever she is. This book might make some moralists more humble.\" -Darcy O'Brien, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eTwo of a \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ecf0Kind: The Hillside Stranglers \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMurder in Little Egypt\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Gregg Olsen's standing as one of America's finest crime journalists will rise even higher with The Confessions of an American Black Widow. Here are all the ingredients of a great crime story-murder, infidelity, greed, nymphomania. But the main element is Olsen's skill at describing and explicating human misbehavior. A must read!\" -Jack Olsen, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eDoc \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePredator\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"What a combination! God, Mammon, carnality, all rendered vividly under Olsen's assured touch.\" -Stephen Michand, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Only Living Witness \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMurderers Among Us\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Gregg Olsen introduces the reader to a character so mesmerizing, so frightening and so evil that one has to keep reminding himself that this amazing fast-paced story is true.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Carlton Stowers, bestselling author of\u003ci\u003e Careless Whispers\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This brilliant true crime story deserves acclaim and thunderous applause.\" -Elizabeth Loftus, co-author, The Myth of Repressed Memory and 1998 President of American Psychological Society \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"That rare book that is at once a page-turner and an important chronicle of true crime. An enlightening and devastating read.\" -Steve A. Eggar, PhD., author of Killers Among Us: An Examination of Serial Murder and Its Investigation \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is probably Gregg's best work yet. Sharon Lynn is the kind of woman-and this is the kind of book-that people will talk about. Gregg Olsen shows us just how chilling it is to realize what might be going on in the house next door.\" -Clark Howard, bestselling author of\u003ci\u003e Love's Blood\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf Loving You is Wrong\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gregg Olsen's\u003ci\u003e If Loving You is Wrong\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderfully researched book that makes the tabloid stories about Mary Kay Letourneau and her forbidden love sound like comic book stuff. Everyone who wants to understand the back-story of the child-woman and her overwhelming passion for a man-child must read\u003ci\u003e If Loving You Is Wrong\u003c\/i\u003e. Olsen's books is both gossipy and sympathetic, searing and brilliant. If Mary Kay is the Humbert Humbert of the female sex-and she is-this book is her Lolita. A must-read for both true crime aficionados and students of abnormal psychology! I read until 3 a.m.!\" -Ann Rule, author of \u003ci\u003eBitter Harvest \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Rage to Kill\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Griffin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45118767956119,"sku":"9781250823977","price":1455.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781250823977.webp?v=1767901269","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/abandoned-prayers-an-incredible-true-story-of-murder-obsession-and-amish-secrets-9781250823977","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}