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If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
If You Tell A True Story of Murder Family Secrets and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
Author: Gregg Olsen
#1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen?s shocking and empowering true-crime story of three sisters determined to survive their mother?s house of horrors.After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle?s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood....  more »
ISBN-13: 9781542005234
ISBN-10: 154200523X
Publication Date: 12/1/2019
Pages: 427
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 33 ratings
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
Members Wishing: 71
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reviewed If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood on + 3083 more book reviews
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The story is very horrific but remember IT IS TRUE, after you read the book then please read the last few pages Afterword by Katherine Ramsland, PHD who is a professor of forensic psychology,
then go on and read the acknowledgements by Olsen and he gives more insight to this family and how it effected them

So my 5* rating is for Gregg Olsen writing this true story in a format that is readable, it is written more like a book of fiction but throughout you have to remind yourself that it is a true story and it is told by the girls and later the 3rd 'dad'

Again, IT IS TRUE, and it is horrific to read what this mother did to that family ALL OF THEM and yet she only was sentenced to 22 years in prison not long enough for the horror she put them through

If you don't have the stomach to read it then don't, maybe you can read it like a fiction and forget it is true, but I think it is well written by Olsen
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joann avatar reviewed If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood on + 397 more book reviews
What a vile, evil woman Shelly Knotek is! Torture, abuse, etc to everyone who she dealt with, including her own children. You will have to read this to learn the truth about the things that happened around this woman. It is a shame that there was never a real trial to put her away forever!


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