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    Love Lies: A True Story of Marriage and Murder in the Suburbs
    Love Lies: A True Story of Marriage and Murder in the Suburbs
    Love Lies: A True Story of Marriage and Murder in the Suburbs
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    Love Lies: A True Story of Marriage and Murder in the Suburbs

    Written by Amanda Lamb

    Narrated by Chloe Cannon

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    A suburban housewife's picture-perfect life is shattered in this riveting true crime book from the author of Evil Next Door.

    When Nancy Cooper moved from Canada to Cary, North Carolina, with her new husband Brad, their future was bright. Living in one of the most picturesque towns in the United States, the couple mingled with neighbors, attended parties, and raised two daughters.

    Then, on July 14, 2008, the façade came crashing down when Nancy's strangled body was found in a storm pond.

    Nancy's husband claimed that she had gone for a jog and never come back. But as the police investigation deepened, and as Brad was brought to trial for murdering his wife, a complex web of affairs and lies was uncovered involving multiple residents of Cary's idyllic neighborhoods. At the heart of it stood the Coopers' soured marriage, Nancy's threat to leave with the children, and her own cold-blooded murder. It would take a mountain of damning evidence before justice was served.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJun 18, 2019
    ISBN9781630155438
    Author

    Amanda Lamb

    Amanda Lamb is a professional television journalist with 23 years of experience. She covers the crime beat for an award-winning CBS affiliate in the southeast. Amanda is also the author of six books, a wife, and the mother of two little girls. She received her undergraduate degree from Duke University and her master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University.  

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    • 1/5
      Wow, talk about describing the suspect guilty even before there was a judge and a jury. This had such a feminist slant I almost stopped listening to it. So only a female can be verbally abused? Hardly. It seemed like most of the book was focused on the kids. Ugh.
    • 5/5
      Narrator does say great job. Tragic story. Nancy’s family were grace beyond pressure
    • 1/5
      I stopped listening to the book when they were at the trial. I’m not sure what the author was going for as far as how they wanted to depict Nancy but all I could think was that they made her sound like a spoiled child that belittled her husband constantly and made herself the victim. Did not care for the book at all.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed the book though there were many elements of the case that were repeated again and again and again. The narrator has a nice voice, but her over-dramatized voicing of emotion followed by a flat “Donna said” was truly strange. Also, every male was voiced nasally. Word pronunciation could have been improved, especially appellate (it’s not the apple-ate court!). The writer did a good job of giving us a clear view of the story and not sainting the victim.
    • 3/5
      Tragic story. Found the book somewhat repetitive, lots of review of the same facts.