A Silence of Mockingbirds: The Memoir of a Murder by Karen Spears Zacharias
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Overview: In the era of Nancy Grace, calling for vengeance for the murder of children has become a kind of pornography. But the literary merits of Karly Sheehan: The True Crime Story Behind Karly’s Law, by former crime reporter Karen Spears Zacharias, outweigh any prurient interest, and the art with which she carefully reconstructs events leading up to a senseless, painful tragedy is reminiscent of In Cold Blood in its power.
In 2005, three-year-old Karly Sheehan was beaten to death in Corvallis, Ore., by her mother’s boyfriend, who was subsequently jailed after a high-profile trial. Both Karly’s father and her daycare provider had noticed suspicious physical signs and behavior leading up to the little girl’s death, but a sloppy inquiry by the state left Karly in harm’s way. Zacharias, a foster mother of sorts to Karly’s mother, is admittedly biased here, but her reaction to the overwhelming atrocity is the awakening of a pure reportorial instinct to ferret out every detail in order to bring out the truth. In doing so, Zacharias employs a sure sense of pace and description that enables this heartbreaking, never-salacious memoir to read like a thriller.
Genre: Biography > True Crime > Murder
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