Carmel S
*WARNING THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS*
Giving this four stars because the story is mind-boggling. If this were fiction, you\'d say it was too preposterous to be believable, and yet, all of it really happened. The problem I have is the same one I always have with Phelps as a writer. He just isn\'t a very good one. He manages to find these amazing stories full of the most outlandish characters who have walked the earth, doing jaw-dropping things, and somehow manages to make them boring. In this story, you\'ve got substance-abusing, orgy-loving lawyers, a beautiful redhead who men apparently couldn\'t stop giving money and gifts to, a former male exotic dancer, a family that makes the Mansons look normal, and a sleazebag killer-for-hire who keeps his son from school so they can get high together. Really? And yet, I almost didn\'t finish because it was such a snoozer. Once it gets going, the story picks up steam and justice is finally served, and the true sadness of this case comes to the forefront. So there\'s your four stars.