American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood, and the Cyanide Poisonings that Shook the World by Gregg Olsen

American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood, and the Cyanide Poisonings that Shook the World

Gregg Olsen

496 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction true crime dark mysterious tense slow-paced
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At 5.02 pm on June 5, 1986, an emergency call came into the local sheriff's office in the small town of Auburn, Washington State. A distressed housewife, Stella Nickell, said her husband Bruce was having a seizure. Officers rushed to the Nickell's...

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Moods

dark 66%
mysterious 63%
informative 54%
sad 39%
tense 36%
challenging 27%
emotional 21%
reflective 12%
adventurous 6%

Pace

medium 50%
slow 47%
fast 2%

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