American mother : the true story of a troubled family, motherhood, and the cyanide murders that shook the world /
Gregg Olsen.
- First edition.
- 496 pages ; 21 cm
"Previously published as Bitter Almonds"--Cover.
At 5.02 pm on June 5, 1986, an emergency call came into the local sheriff's office in the small town of Auburn, Washington State. A distressed housewife, Stella Nickell, said her husband Bruce was having a seizure. Officers rushed to the Nickell's mobile home, to find Stella standing frozen at the door Bruce was on the floor fighting for his life. As Stella became the beneficiary of over"--Publisher's description