4/19/2023 0 Comments The babysitter book![]() " The Babysitter is a gripping read that’s impossible to put down: a string of gristly murders, a cast of charismatic, often abusive, and occasionally pathological characters, a comically incompetent police force, and an astute child’s perspective on the adults in her life. More profoundly, it raises questions about how children manage to adapt and survive in a world in which love, attention, and violence are inextricably intertwined." Sarah Weinman, author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit and Obsession Rodman and Jordan's book skillfully weaves a suspenseful portrayal of murderous madness in tandem with a child's growing loneliness, neglect, and despair, a narrative collision that will haunt me, and readers, for years." "I was utterly captivated by The Babysitter, a hybrid memoir & true crime investigation of the heinous crimes of a Cape Cod serial killer who also happened to be the only adult young Liza Rodman felt safe with. "Continues a tradition started by Ann Rule’s The Stranger Beside Me.and is a compelling, sensitive hybrid of memoir and true crime.straightforward, unwavering in its clarity." " enthralling memoir deftly intertwines the stormy childhood of one of the authors and the life and brutal acts of the serial killer who often watched over her." In the end, this is a story of Liza Rodman’s survival and strength." ", tense, harrowing, and balanced.The authors move it beyond mere entertainment and toward a challenging exploration of family and dysfunction. "An emotional tour-de-force.heart-pounding, gut-wrenching.will thrill True Crime and memoir fams alike." In addition to her own books Savage Summit and Last Man on the Mountain, she has ghostwritten two others. ![]() She has directed and produced several documentaries, including 3000 Cups of Tea, which revealed the flawed 60 Minutes report on renowned philanthropist Greg Mortenson. She has worked for NPR and PBS, and her work has also appeared in a variety of national and international newspapers and magazines. Jennifer Jordan is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and screenwriter with decades of experience as a news anchor and investigative journalist. Liza and her husband have three children, five grandchildren, and live outside Boston. She has balanced life as a mother, stepmother, writer, and tax accountant for more than thirty-five years. Liza Rodman attended the University of Massachusetts/Amherst in the late 1970s and received her Bachelor of Arts with a concentration in creative writing from Vermont College in 2005. Now, she and cowriter Jennifer Jordan reveal “a suspenseful portrayal of murderous madness in tandem with a child’s growing loneliness, neglect, and despair, a narrative collision that will haunt” (Sarah Weinman, author of The Real Lolita) you long after you finish it. Haunted by nightmares and horrified by what she learned, Liza became obsessed with the case. Though Tony Costa’s gruesome case made screaming headlines in 1969 and beyond, Liza never made the connection between her friendly babysitter and the infamous killer of numerous women, including four in Massachusetts, until decades later. To Liza, he was one of the few kind, understanding, and safe adults in her life.īut there was one thing she didn’t know their babysitter was a serial killer. He bought them popsicles and together, they visited his “secret garden” in the Truro woods. During the summers, while her mother worked days in a local motel and danced most nights in the Provincetown bars, her babysitter-the kind, handsome handyman at the motel where her mother worked-took her and her sister on adventures in his truck. Growing up on Cape Cod in the 1960s, Liza Rodman was a lonely little girl. Is this new nightmare connected with those long-ago crimes? Emma’s fractured memories may contain the answer.This chilling true story and “harrowing account of the evil that can lurk around the edges of girlhood” (Carolyn Murnick, author of The Hot One)-reminiscent of Ann Rule’s classic The Stranger Beside Me-follows a little girl longing for love who finds friendship with her charismatic babysitter, unaware that he is a vicious serial killer. Jamie, with a teenage daughter of her own, fears something much more twisted than coincidence. Then suddenly another young babysitter is attacked. Jamie, back in River Glen after their mother’s death, still feels guilty over trading places that fateful evening. ![]() Twenty years after that night’s vicious attack, Emma remains scarred in body and mind. She’s more interested in the party she’ll go to later, as soon as her sister Emma arrives to take over babysitting duties. High school sophomore Jamie Whelon, scheduled to watch the Ryerson twins tonight, isn’t worried. A second fell-or was pushed-from a rooftop deck. In River Glen, Oregon, rumors are spreading about the Babysitter Stalker.
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