Review: Death Sentence: The Inside Story of the John List Murders by Joe Sharkey

Title: Death Sentence: The Inside Story of the John List Murders
Author: Joe Sharkey
Publisher: Open Road Media
Publication Date: January 17, 2017 (first published January 1st 1990)
Edition: ebook (304 pages)
Genres:

• Nonfiction
• True Crime

My Rating: 4 of 5 stars

In November of 1971, John List murdered his wife, his three children and his mother in his New Jersey home. After, he disappeared and fell off the radar for eighteen years. He assumed a new identity and built a new life, until his arrest.

Joe Sharkey brings this case to life, weaving together the lives of the List family into a narrative that shocks the senses. I found the story and the writing equally fascinating.