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I have been enjoying read crime and true crime stories lately, which is why I decided to read this book. I was looking forward to finding out the "why" for this crime. What drove this mother to try to murder 2 of her 3 children? The answer... we don't know. Every trail Nancy Rommelmann goes down either is a dead end or a loop that shifts the blame onto someone else. There is no resolution. No answer. At least her surviving children are doing better without her- they're fed and cared for. I am fine with a book that has a sad ending. I am not happy with a book with an incomplete ending. Now for the other main problem I had with this book: the writing. Miss Rommelmann has written many books and articles over the years, but you'd never know it. She jumps from 1st & 3rd person frequently- I can excuse chapter to chapter or when she stated the crime and events the day of at the beginning of the book- but my issue was how quickly it would change without a segway. There are flashbacks (which may or may not deal with this case) that interrupt the main story. Half of the time when someone is speaking, there aren't quotation marks. Sometimes when she is taking with someone there are no quotation marks and it reads like a thought. Conversations and thoughts should be written differently. The timeline of things leading up to the crime is jumbled. And half-way though the book she spends several pages talking about a completely different crime. She rewrites the story of the crime with just a teeny bit more detail at least 3 times. I stopped counting after a while. It's poorly written and I'm mad that I wasted my time on it.