Missy’s Murder

Passion, Betrayal, and Murder in Southern California

De: Karen Kingsbury

Narrado por: Laural Merlington

From a New York Times bestselling author and former Los Angeles Times reporter, two teens kill their friend, then befriend the girl's family to avoid suspicion.

On a beautiful October day in the San Fernando Valley, teenager Missy Avila was lured into the woods, beaten, tortured, and drowned. Missy's best friend, Karen Severson, publicly vowed to find the killer and even moved in with Missy's family to help. Three years later, a surprise witness exposed the murderers as Missy's two best friends—one of whom was Karen.

New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury delivers a story full of twists, turns, betrayals, and confessions. Missy's Murder is a shocking tale of one of the most notorious murder trials of the eighties, and a startling debut novel from Kingsbury, who now has over twenty-five million books in print.

©1991, 2014 Karen Kingsbury (P)2023 Tantor

Mean Girls 101

This is a great book made you feel like you were in the picture with all the characters. Another great read by Karen Kingsbury.

needs a few more details

I loved the audible book, but hated the did not give the sentencing .and how the women flared in prison

Gripping and sad

Always love Karen Kingsbury’s book! This one was a little different with not as much faith based but still excellent

Good Book

Was very well written I would recommend for people who love true crime this family my heart goes out to them

Unbelievable

In this type of scenario you just wish so badly it could have ended differently and the victim could have been saved.the family pays so much.

Excellent

This book came to my attention as I received an email from Amazon where it was presented as a Kindle edition. So I jumped right into Audible to see if I could buy a copy I could listen to while doing housework.

Well, I bought the book, and just couldn’t put it down it was far to gripping to stop listening.

The book is well written with dramatizations to make it more authentic for the reader/listener. I guess that was one of the reasons I got so captured by this book as it almost felt like being there. Even the courtroom section was good. No dry spots to find here.

A must read for all true crime aficionados

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Masterly told narrative 

This story was riveting. I don’t remember hearing about the murder, but I was living on the East Coast. I am impressed with the depth of research and attention to detail provided by Kingsbury. This is not her typical genre, but the story needs to be told. 

true story

I liked that it was true story and was delivered as such..not any dramatics. thanks

A true to life situation.

Unfortunately this is all to common across the country today. I don’t think there’s a single state that doesn’t have a similar story. Which asks the question “How do those without God survive?”

Excellent

This book was very well done. One of my all-time favorite readers too. It’s a crazy story!