Many thanks to NetGalley, St Martin's Press and Tantor Audio for gifting me both a digital and audio ARC of the new true crime book by John Glatt, narrated by Shaun Grindell - 4 stars!
This is the story of the Murdaugh family and its hold on the South Carolina low country where they lived and worked for centuries. But the story really took off when prominent attorney Alex Murdaugh discovered the bodies of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, on the grounds of their lodge. Then months later, Alex himself was discovered shot in the head on a local roadside. It's also the story of all the corruption this family was involved with, stealing their clients' settlements, making their own bad behaviors go away, and even covering up murders.
While this story has been in the headlines over the last couple years, this book really covered all the gifts and privileges this one family enjoyed for a century, and all the ways they abused that power. It's shameful to know how many people this family had in their pockets and the power they wielded to allow their own bad behavior to go unpunished. A must read for true crime buffs! My only issue was that it was a little strange to listen to the audiotape narrated by a British voice when the subject matter was a deep southern family. He did a great job; I just feel his voice wasn't the right one for this book.
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