This was a really well done true crime nonfiction book, it does a great job in telling the Alice Crimmins story in a respectful way and was researched perfectly. I thought this was a great way to tell the story and Anais Renevier had a great writing style.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the Kindle ARC in exchange for an honest review. Alice Crimmins' children went missing on a summer night in 1963. Alice lived a lifestyle that wasn't widely approved of in that time period. She was separated from her husband, was attractive and dressed to show her figure, wore makeup and saw men outside her marriage. She was immediately a suspect in her young son and daughter's deaths, not because of any incriminating evidence - just based on the fact that she wasn't a woman of "morals." The children were found dead a few days after their disappearance and the police and press did all they could in their power to incriminate and charge her in the crime. Anais Renevier has accurately portraited a grim reality for women - based on their appearances. Times were different in 1963 but her treatment compared to the many male suspects in the case was blatantly and suspiciously different. I wasn't familiar with this case before reading this book and I'm glad I did because it was an eye-opener and put together very well.