Good story. I liked the background info on cultural and racial climate in Boston in the late 80's . I've known about this case for a long time, and it was interesting to hear how Carol and Charles met.

Gripping true crime story that the reader will remember for a long time. Truth truly is stranger than fiction.

DEADLY GREED BY JOE SHARKEY
I received this digital copy from the Publisher: Open Road Media, Net Galley and Joe Sharkey in exchange for an honest and fair review. I wish to extend my thanks to all of the above.
I love Joe Sharkey's writing. I recently reviewed Above Suspicion and loved it. I requested this one because on October 23, 1989 I was following the media circus that divided a city. I really admire Joe Sharkey's writing. He wrote a column for The New York Times for nineteen years and also was an assistant editor for The Wall Street Journal. He writes his narratives with a sharp observation for detail. At the time of this crime, I was working in Boston and my colleagues and I were shocked by the outrage of the crime and Charles Stuart had fooled us all. The police, the media and the people of Boston.

On October 23, 1989 after leaving Brigham and Women's Hospital where I also gave birth to my youngest son many years later, Charles and Carol Stuart it was reported where robbed at gunpoint. I was working in Boston at this time. Carol who was seven month's pregnant had just left this world respected hospital after attending prenatal classes to prepare for the birth of their first child, a boy named Christopher who was taken by emergency C-Section following a fatal shooting of Carol. Carol was loved by all who knew her and was a successful tax attorney. Carol dreamed of having a family and was ecstatic to be having her first child. Charles wanted Carol to have an abortion. Charles shot Carol in the head that fateful night. He then was planning to shoot himself, when Carol lunged for him and he was gravely injured when she bumped the gun and the bullet pierced his intestines. Carol did not die immediately and Charles drove to an abandoned area waiting for Carol to die.

Charles told detectives that an African American robbed them then shot Carol and shot Charles last. The time that it took Carol to die, the baby was deprived of oxygen and did not live long. Charles had everybody fooled when he made up a false description of the perpetrator. For six weeks police did terrible things to the Black community. Some people didn't believe Charles's story. An armed person is usually going to shoot the husband first. The Media further fed into this lie and there were many Black men falsely accused and it caused racial relations to divide. Charles had the nation convinced that it was somebody else that randomly robbed and killed Carol and the three pound baby.