American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood, and the Cyanide Murders That Shook the World

American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood, and the Cyanide Murders That Shook the World - Paperback

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American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood, and the Cyanide Murders That Shook the World
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American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood, and the Cyanide Murders That Shook the World - Paperback

American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood, and the Cyanide Murders That Shook the World - Paperback

by Gregg Olsen
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Read the Wall Street Journal bestseller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell--an absolutely unputdownable and chilling true-crime story of Stella Nickell--a mother and wife who did the unthinkable... and the unforgiveable.

At 5.02 pm 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 Nickell's 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 pay-out, forensics discovered that Bruce had consumed painkillers laced with cyanide.

A week later, fifteen-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 own 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 heart-breaking, 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.

Originally published as Bitter Almonds. Revised and updated edition.
ISBN9781538724859
Author Gregg Olsen
PublisherGrand Central Publishing
FormatPaperback
PublishedNovember 2022
LanguageENG- English
Pages496
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Gregg Olsen is the #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, #1 Amazon charts, USA Today and Washington Post bestselling author of more than 30 books, including the Waterman & Stark Thrillers, the Detective Megan Carpenter series, the Nicole Foster series, and If You Tell, which was Amazon's bestselling eBook of the year in 2020 and second bestselling book of 2021. His novels and nonfiction books have been translated into more than 30 languages, and he is an Edgar Award finalist for The Amish Wife and International Thriller Writers of America Thriller Award finalist for The Boy She Left Behind. An impassioned voice for victims and their families, he has made numerous television and radio appearances on national shows and networks, including Good Morning America, Dateline, 20/20, CBS Morning News, 48 Hours, Entertainment Tonight, Forensic Files, CNN, NPR, and MSNBC. He is a native of Seattle, but now lives in rural Washington State with his wife and two of the most misbehaved dachshunds ever to roam the earth. Visit him online at NotoriousUSA.com or on Facebook /GreggOlsenAuthor and @GreggOlsen on Instagram.

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