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Gregg Olsen

    March 5, 1959
    Gregg Olsen
    Water's Edge
    Lying Next to Me
    Now That She's Gone
    The Weight of Silence
    Stillwater Island
    American Black Widow
    • 2024

      The #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Gregg Olsen solves a murder among the Amish and reveals the conspiracy to keep it a secret in a heartbreaking and horrifying true-crime story. In 1977, in an Ohio Amish community, pregnant wife and mother Ida Stutzman perished during a barn fire. The coroner's report: natural causes. Ida's husband, Eli, was never considered a suspect. But when he eventually rejected the faith and took his son, Danny, with him, murder followed. What really happened to Ida? The dubious circumstances of the tragic blaze were willfully ignored and Eli's shifting narratives disregarded. Could Eli's subsequent cross-country journey of death--including that of his own son--have been prevented if just one person came forward with what they knew about the real Eli Stutzman? The questions haunted Gregg Olsen and Ida's brother Daniel Gingerich for decades. At Daniel's urging, Olsen now returns to Amish Country and to Eli's crimes first exposed in Olsen's Abandoned Prayers, one of which has remained a mystery until now. With the help of aging witnesses and shocking long-buried letters, Olsen finally uncovers the disturbing truth--about Ida's murder and the conspiracy of silence and secrets that kept it hidden for forty-five years.

      The Amish Wife
    • 2023

      New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen investigates the sensational story of a minister who seduced four of his female congregants, and hatched a cold-blooded plot to murder his wife. On December 26, 1997, near the affluent community of Bainbridge Island off the coast of Seattle, a house went up in flames. In it was the shy, beloved minister's wife Dawn Hacheney. When the fire was extinguished, investigators found only her charred remains. Her husband Nick was visibly devastated by the loss. What investigators failed to note, however, was that Dawn's lungs didn't contain smoke. Was she dead before the fire began? So begins this true crime story that's unlike any other. It investigates Nick Hacheney, a philandering minister who had been carrying on with several women in the months before and just after his wife's death. He would be convicted for the murder five years to the day after the crime. From one of the foremost names in true crime, A Twisted Faith is a gripping and truly unforgettable story of a man whose charisma and desire rocked an entire community.

      A Twisted Faith
    • 2023

      From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell comes the chilling, unputdownable story of Sharon Nelson, the minister's wife whose two husbands mysteriously ended up dead.

      American Black Widow
    • 2023

      In this chilling true story - a haunting saga of medical murder set in an era of steamships and gaslights - the #1 bestselling author of If You Tell, Gregg Olsen, reveals one of the most unusual and disturbing criminal cases in American history.

      Starvation Heights
    • 2022

      Revenge, justice, or closure? Family crimes can't be hidden forever in this provocative novel of suspense by #1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen. Violet knows that time is a futile healer. When she thinks of her happily married grandfather--a predator lovingly referred to as Papa--the feelings of rage and betrayal still swell. Her younger sister, Lily, just discovered the numbing truth about him. Their mother, Rose? She can't believe it. Not Papa. Leave it alone, Violet. Focus on the now. When Papa suffers a sudden, and suspicious, fatal heart attack at Violet's wedding, she can barely conceal her joy. Maybe the fellow survivor at her support group is right: moving on is possible only when monsters are removed from society permanently. Violet is focusing on the now. Even if doing so calls for extremes. For herself, and for the sake of other victims like her, Violet is reclaiming the power stolen from her as a child. Predator by predator, she's coming for them. It's intoxicating. It's liberating. But the secrets she now keeps, and the lies she must tell, come with a price.

      I Know Where You Live
    • 2022

      From the #1 bestselling author of If You Tell comes the shocking true-crime story of a mother and wife, her disturbing family secrets and how she became a cold-hearted killer.

      American Mother
    • 2022

      Ak to niekomu povieš...

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      4.3(1060)Add rating

      Skutočný príbeh troch dievčat lapených do siete chladnokrvnej vypočítavej vrahyne – ich matky. Keď sestry Nikki, Sami a Tori Knotekové počujú slovo „mama“, ešte aj dnes, po viac ako desiatich rokoch, sa ich zmocní pocit, akoby do nich niekto zaťal ostré pazúry. To slovo zakaždým oživuje spomienky, ktoré boli od detstva ich tajomstvom. Až doteraz. Za zatvorenými dverami farmárskej usadlosti v Raymonde v štáte Washington boli sestry celé roky vystavené nepredstaviteľne hrubému zaobchádzaniu, ponižovaniu, týraniu a psychickému teroru zo strany vlastnej matky Shelly. Napriek tomu si Nikki, Sami a Tori vytvorili nezlomné puto, vďaka ktorému boli oveľa odolnejšie, než sa Shelly domnievala. Keď boli do matkinej temnej a zvrátenej pavučiny vtiahnuté ďalšie osoby, sestry našli v sebe silu a odvahu uniknúť stupňujúcej sa nočnej more, ktorá vyvrcholila sériou vrážd. Kniha Ak to niekomu povieš... je pravdivou, mučivou a srdcervúcou výpoveďou obetí číreho zla – príbehom o utrpení, ale aj o slobode a spravodlivosti, ktoré si Nikki, Sami a Tori vybojovali s nasadením života. Našli svetlo v temnote, vďaka ktorému sa stali tým, čím sú dnes – húževnatými, milujúcimi a milovanými ženami, ktoré kráčajú ďalej vlastnou cestou.

      Ak to niekomu povieš...
    • 2021

      Stillwater Island

      An absolutely gripping mystery suspense thriller

      • 328 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      4.2(60)Add rating

      The story unfolds with Marlena's deepening anxiety as she comforts her frightened son in the dark, suggesting a setting near water that heightens her fear. The intimate moment reveals her protective instincts and the bond between mother and child, set against a backdrop of uncertainty and impending tension. As seagulls cry in the night, the atmosphere becomes charged with both vulnerability and suspense, hinting at deeper themes of fear and maternal love.

      Stillwater Island
    • 2021

      Poverty and Austerity amid Prosperity

      • 288 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Drawing from a cross-national perspective and a range of comparative vantage points, Poverty and Austerity amid Prosperity provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of poverty.

      Poverty and Austerity amid Prosperity
    • 2020

      Silent Ridge

      • 260 pages
      • 10 hours of reading
      3.9(52)Add rating

      The setting features a vibrant mural of a sunflower, complemented by shower curtains that, while yellow, are marked with striking red blotches, hinting at a deeper narrative. A photo of a teenage girl from South Kitsap High School leans against the mirror, suggesting a personal connection or story tied to her identity and the colorful yet chaotic environment surrounding her. This imagery evokes themes of youth, memory, and perhaps the contrast between beauty and turmoil.

      Silent Ridge