Love Lies
A True Story of Marriage and Murder in the Suburbs

I know this is a true story and I have all the empathy for Nancy Cooper’s family and friends but to write a book about this case was a little too much. It was very repetitive, legit repeating the same situations over and over again no less than five times. Save yourself the time and just read a news......more

When this trial was going on in Raleigh I was OBSESSED with it. I even wrote about how I was going through withdrawals from it. So I just had to read this book even though I had heard before that it was totally biased. After reading the book, I can see why Amanda Lamb was biased. She ran in the same......more

4.5 rounded up--this was an above average true crime book about a wife & mother who was brutally murdered in North Carolina. I went in knowing very little--in fact didn't know it was a murder story (but I could guess), and I went along for the ride. Lamb is a talented journalist--she balances vivid......more

Underwhelming. First don't be fooled into thinking this is a police procedural. Lamb is no Ann Rule...not even close. The author starts out telling about the disappearance and murder of a woman in Cary, NC, at the point of divorcing her husband. Then you hear it from each of those friends. Then she......more

This literally happened 3 blocks away so it was fascinating to finally know all the details. I loved the first part up to the trial but then it was a little repetitive - mainly because it had to be since she retold what happened at the trial. Liked this one mainly because I was so curious about what......more