Features
- Cover Type: Mass Market Paperback with 336 pages
- Published by: St. Martin's True Crime March 1, 2005
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0312998031
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0312998035
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Book Dimensions:
6.6 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches
- Weighs: 7.8 ounces
Product Review
"A tough new voice rises in the ranks of true-crime writers." -Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Gregg Olsen's work is absolutely top notch, masterful. With [Cruel Deception], Gregg takes his rightful place among crime masters."-Dennis McDougal, author of In the Best of Families and Whatever Mother Says
"CompellingsuspensefulGregg Olsen is masterful in creating this incredible story. As he brings his characters to life, he evokes emotions in us, as we hope against hope that the inevitable crime will not happen."-Rod Clovin, author of Evil Harvest
"A must read for all true-crime junkiesIt picks up speed with each page and rapidly moves from absorbing to riveting, sweeping the reader alongCombines diligent, exhaustive research with a crisp, captivating style."-Steven Nickel, author of Torso
"A riveting, often horrifying, and important booka much needed addition to the canon of serious criminal justice literature."-Joseph Bosco, author of Blood Will Tell and A Problem of Evidence: How the Prosecution Freed O.J. Simpson
"Intensely interesting and movingeye opening and educational. An in-depth and sensitive analysis of this complex disorder."-Gary King, author of Web of Deceit and Blind Rage
"Gregg Olsen has a rare and unique talent for getting to the bottom of weird, complex cases and writing about them in an understated style that makes the readers eyeballs bulge. [Cruel Deception] is his best."-Jack Olsen, author of Doc
"A remarkable and amazing booka piece of art in suspense and entertainment for the reader of crime books."-Thomas V. Hill, criminal justice consultant
"[Cruel Deception] is a fascinating and groundbreaking book. Through a riveting examination of harrowing psychological issues, Gregg Olsen has triumphed with both sensitivity and insight."-Elizabeth F. Loftus, Ph.D., coauthor of The Myth of Repressed Memory
cf0"Illuminating. The most complete account of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy I have seen."-Murray Levine, J.D., Ph.D., codirector, Research Center for Children and Youth, adjunct professor of law
"Compellingimpossible to put downthe author deserves credit for writing a must-read book!'-Yvone M. Chase, ACSW, vice chair, U.S. Advisory Board of Child Abuse and Neglect
Product Description
In and out of hospitals since birth, angelic nine-month-old Morgan Reid finally succumbed to what appeared to be Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Morgan's Texas-born mother Tanya, a nurse and devoted wife, pulled up stakes with her grieving husband Jim, and moved on. It was the best way to put the past behind them. Until their son Michael, a boy who by all accounts was terrified of his mother, began showing signs of the same affliction that stole the life of his baby sister
First, the suspicion: Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. Then, Tanya was charged and convicted with felony child abuse of her son. She was later tried and ultimately convicted for first degree murder of Morgan. It would become a landmark trial that unfolded in a series of reversals and bizarre twists of fate as it gradually revealed another side of Tanya Reid-of her own troubling childhood and the dark secrets that drove a lady to the cruelest deception of all
Reader ReviewsOverall, this was a very good book about a subject that I find depressing to read about (munchausen syndrome by proxy). Their was not enought information given about the background of the main character Tanya Reid, in my opinion, and too much detail was given to describing the lead prosecuting attorney's background (which I did not care about). However it is still a very interesting story, and a tragic one.
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