Gossip Kills: (The 9Th 8th ? Commandment) You Shall Not Bear...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 300 pages
• Published by: Llumina Press September 2003
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1932560068
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1932560060
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Weighs: 15.7 ounces

Book Description
Two Pompano Beach detectives appear at the Florida residence of an innocent lady and accuse her of murdering her brother in Oregon and planning a satanic cult mass suicide. Is it possible? She is disabled, hasn't spent a night away from home in six years, and participates at the local Roman Catholic Church. She has been mourning the recent deaths of both her brother and her father.

Acting on an accusatory letter sent by a sister in Virginia, the police continue to harass her. Soon afterwards she learns that someone has been impersonating her, posting pornographic web pages inviting men to come directly to her house to be paid for sex parties on yachts. Trespassers, vandals, stalkers, and burglars show up but the police refuse to help. In defense, she tries to uncover the truth.

Totally alone, she exposes the dirty laundry of a dysfunctional First Family of Virginia, as well as the bungling and corruption of the local police. The search reveals scandals triggered by a suicide note, a secret abortion and drug addiction that led to insanity, mismanagement of a million-dollar family estate, and a slanderous conspiracy among U.S. military employees, a staff employee working in the Virginia State Assembly, and others in Virginia. The gossip spreads ominously from Virginia to Oregon to Florida to Germany.

Gossip kills. Gossip pushed the protagonist's brother to kill himself and lured the police into harassing a law-abiding citizen. GOSSIP KILLS reveals how one family's dysfunction erupted across State lines to identity theft and internet crime. You could be next!

Publisher Description
"To the Chief of Pompano Beach Florida Police:

I am contacting you reference a possible cult disappearance/suicide. I live in Virginia. I have a 50-year-old disabled brother in very poor physical and mental condition, living in Portland, Oregon, who is currently missingI have a sister in Pompano Beach, Florida who has her own cult of which my brother is a member."

Thus begins the true letter to the police, and the true story, almost unbelievable, of the journey of one woman's struggle to clear her name and remain true to her faith in God. On this journey she encounters the dreadful truth about her childhood, and the conspiracy to make her lose everything at the hands of her family. It is one woman's jouney from the Bible Belt of Virginia, to California's Silicon Valley, to "la la" land in south Florida.

GOSSIP KILLS is a "whodunit" that explores the motive of the police for not helping the victim, and the basic anti-Catholicism that flourishes in our time. This nonfiction, true crime book shows you how one person, with a strong faith in God, survived a dysfunctional family's gossip gone public, including the eruption into internet-induced crimes and identity theft.

GOSSIP KILLS documents what the author had to do to survive the assaults and find out "whodunit." Simultaneously, she discovers the depth of betrayals interwoven in her family, is forced to become a detective of the internet, and must decide how to come to peace with the isolation created by gossip and suicide. The book's subtitle, "The 9th/8th? Commandment," indicates the underlying conflicts between Catholic and non-Catholic Christian groups today that lead to public misunderstandings and controversies every bit as deadly as the ones in the author's family of origin.

Identity theft and internet-induced crimes make headlines almost daily. GOSSIP KILLS presents these two social and economic problems in a story that explains simply the complications of prosecuting such crimes. Victims, not-yet victimized citizens, and law enforcement personnel who read this story will easily comprehend the enormity of the problem, and focus on the solutions proposed. People of faith will be challenged to think how they live true to their beliefs.

Reader Reviews
I found this a somehwat entertaining read and at times even a little funny, but the author's claim that it is a 'true' story seems a little exagerated to me. I think it would read better as a novel, with the heroine's character a little more developed. The book has a beginning and a middle, but it's endng leaves the reader hanging. If the book is actually true and the author is using real peoples names, I hope for her sake that the characters in her book either don't care that she's smearing their names publicly, or else they don't find out about what she's saying about them. But I suspect it's really fiction. The best thing about the book is that you can read it for free on the author's website, gossip kills.com. I accidently found it online and was intruiged enough to go on and read it.