Cruel Doubt

Cruel Doubt

<i><b>From the </b></i><b>New York Times</b><i><b> bestselling author of </b></i><b>Fatal Vision</b><i><b> comes a shocking true account of murder, family secrets, and final justice now available for the first time as an e-book...</b></i><br /><br />One hot summer night in 1988, Bonnie Von Stein's second husband was murdered in their bed, Bonnie herself stabbed, beaten, and left for dead beside him. It looked like a brutal but tragically typical case: Von Stein was newly wealthy, and Bonnie's troubled son Chris, seemed like the obvious suspect. <br /><br />But Chris turned out to have an air-tight alibi and new leads suggested the crime could be much more complex. The trail led to Chris’s two strange new friends from college and a real-life enactment of a bizarre Dungeons and Dragons fantasy adventure, and it implicated Bonnie's teenage daughter as well. <br /><br />In <i>Cruel Doubt</i>, Joe McGinniss probes the dark heart of family life and small-town North Carolina society to uncover a fascinating and terrifying story that is at once a chilling murder mystery, a tense courtroom drama, and a heartbreaking account of a mother forced to doubt her own children.