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    Unanswered Cries: A True Story of Friends, Neighbors, and Murder in a Small Town
    Unanswered Cries: A True Story of Friends, Neighbors, and Murder in a Small Town
    Unanswered Cries: A True Story of Friends, Neighbors, and Murder in a Small Town
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    Unanswered Cries: A True Story of Friends, Neighbors, and Murder in a Small Town

    Written by Thomas French

    Narrated by Mikael Naramore

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    About this audiobook

    The fatal night

    On a warm Florida evening, Karen Gregory saw a familiar face at her door. What the beautiful young woman could not know was that she was staring into the eyes of her killer—a savage monster who would rape her, stab her to death, and leave her battered body on the floor outside the bedroom.

    The desperate search

    Detectives frantically sifting through the evidence were tormented by one disturbing question after another: What did the strangely worded note from a friend mean? Why was the house so orderly, when it had been the scene of a frenzied struggle? Why were the bloody footprints on the carpet barefoot? What happened to the white lace teddy missing from Karen’s drawer?

    The shattering discovery

    Police detective Larry Tosi stayed up nights watching the video of the grisly crime scene, looking for the one telltale clue that would lead him to Karen’s killer—until slowly, and with growing horror, he realized that the maniac he was hunting was someone he knew...someone he called a friend.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateDec 5, 2017
    ISBN9781543657609
    Unanswered Cries: A True Story of Friends, Neighbors, and Murder in a Small Town
    Author

    Thomas French

    Thomas French has been a journalist for three decades. For most of that time, he worked as a reporter at the St. Petersburg Times, where he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. He now teaches journalism at Indiana University.

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    • 4/5
      After 8 chapters the title is no longer available WTF.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Indepth but not tedious, I very much enjoyed this book.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      The authors writing skill is very apparent in this book. It was a very thorough play by play that was so complete in its descriptions and imagery that I felt as if I could have been watching this on court tv. I wasn’t surprised to learn the author had been a writer for a newspaper because he managed to deliver detailed information without inserting his opinion on the story. This audio book was free of the writers pontificating about the main characters and just delivered a factual retelling of events while maintaining my interests. Very moving story.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Story was told in such a bland way. Hard to stay interested.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Very interesting true crime story. The author did a good job of keeping it interesting.
    • 5/5
      The narrator did a gripping tale telling job.
      Revealing account.
    • 5/5
      This book was great in showing how the system works. Moved at a great pace.
    • 5/5
      The story was so unexpected and unusual to try to out guess.
    • 5/5
      Fantastic book. Perfectly balanced, not too much detail and some fascinating new insights into the case (which is one that has been detailed many times on podcasts and in other books). I have often found that the best non-fiction books are written by journalists and this one by Thomas French is no exception. Extremely compelling with excellent narration. Highly recommended.
    • 5/5
      Enjoyed the book very much. Rather long but worth it. Great detail was given by the author.
    • 5/5
      I liked both the story and the narration. I learned a few things about legal jargon too.
    • 5/5
      Riveting and enthralling..I loved the book from beginning to end
    • 5/5
      Tragic, yet satisfying. It is indeed hard for people to accept the truth, even though it is already in front of them. Even if the person is not the direct offender, looking away when you have a power to make a difference, is true evil.
    • 4/5
      Long, detailed account of this murder. Well researched and well narrated. Overall an enjoyable read.
    • 4/5
      When Karen Gregory was attacked in her Florida home, she screamed. Her scream was heard by more than a dozen neighbors and if was audible for several blocks. Yet no one called the police. Her body was discovered thirty-one hours later and the trail was cold. There were things about this case that puzzled detectives. There was a note left on a car in the driveway, detectives wondered why the police were not called since there was blood and broken glass outside the front door. Also the evidence pointed to a violent struggle, but the house was neat and clean. There were bloody footprints and a white lace teddy was missing.

      Some of these questions are answered and for others the detectives had to draw their own conclusions. Mr. French brings all these to our attention. He also chronicles the effect the murder had on Karen’s friends and relatives, showing how a murder affects more than just the person killed and therefore how cruel an act it is.

      A very compelling book from start to finish.
    • 4/5
      On Wednesday, February 25, 2004 I wrote about this book on bookcrossing:


      Actuallly this was a great book. I did read this in 1 and a half day, so thats pretty quick, considering English is not my native language.;) (It is my mothers, she is English, but we always spoke Dutch)

      This Book was very well written.The most shocking of this book is that even if you live in a small and friendly neighborhood you are not safe.everybody living there heard Karen scream but nobody helped, or checked what was going on.
    • 3/5
      An okay book. Very disturbing that nobody called the cops when they heard the scream. There's just no excuse for something like that. My copy had no photos of Karen Gregory though which I thought was odd for a true crime book. Looking forward to the show on Investigation Discovery featuring this crime.
    • 3/5
      Starts out fast, but gets bogged down in too much detail after we know who did it. Very average to less than average for true crime story.
    • 4/5
      Wow! I read this true crime while sitting on the beach in St. Petersburg... 15 minutes from where the crime occurred. Great book!