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Happy and retired, Tom and Jackie Hawks lived a charmed life in sunny Southern California. They were delighted when former child star Skylar Deleon and his pregnant wife, Jennifer, offered cash to purchase their fifty-five-foot yacht, the Well Deserved . . . But a trial voyage turned into a nightmare. Out at sea, the Hawkses begged for their lives as they were forced to sign everything over to Skylar. In return, they were tied to the ship’s anchor and thrown overboard—alive. Skylar and Jennifer’s twisted story became even more shocking when Skylar’s unusual sexual motivations were revealed in court. After killing a man while out of jail on work furlough, he reportedly tried to hire hits from prison on four witnesses, including his father. For this former child actor, the answer to “Where are they now?” is Death Row.
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Well researched and a quick, engrossing read, this should be popular with true crime readers, especially the Ann Rule crowd.
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Library Journal
About Caitlin Rother
Caitlin Rother,
a daily newspaper reporter for almost twenty years, has written for Cosmopolitan, the Los
Angeles Times, the Daily News of
Los Angeles, the Chicago
Tribune, the Boston
Globe, and the San
Diego Union-Tribune. A Pulitzer Prize nominee, she now writes books full-time.
Rother is the author of Poisoned
Love, the authoritative account of the Kristin Rossum murder
case, and the novel Naked
Addiction. She has won three awards in the Best of the West contest,
which judges stories from major metropolitan newspapers in the thirteen western
states. She also won five awards for a narrative that tracked the progress of
all five recipients from a twelve-year-old organ donor, including a Best
Feature award from the Associated Press News Executives Council, and a Best
News-Feature award from the Los Angeles Press Club. Rother lives in San Diego.
About Julie McKay
Julie McKay is a voice talent and audiobook narrator. She has a degree in music and a background in classical theater. As an actor, she has worked at Shakespeare festivals and regional theaters across the country as well as off-Broadway in New York.