A review by beckimoody29
American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood and the Cyanide Poisonings That Shook the World by Gregg Olsen, Gregg Olsen

2.0

First off, I thought this was about the more well-known cyanide tampering and at first was excited to read about a case that I was not familiar with. That quickly faded. By about 50 pages in I was completely confused about the cast of characters — especially because we barely hear anything about the other victim for the rest of the book. I will admit I wasn’t reading closely by then but I’m still not sure if she was targeted (doesn’t seem like it) or just an accident. I got every detail of every affair but it was poorly organized so I got lost on where we were in the evidence. I’ve read other books by Gregg and don’t remember them being as difficult so maybe this was an early title.