I recently finished reading Cape May Court House: A Death in the Night by Lawrence Schiller and I have to say I was hooked from the start. I'm usually reluctant to read non-fiction because it doesn't often interest me, but this book succeeded where others have failed.
In this true crime novel, a man, Eric Thomas and his wife, Tracy, who is six months pregnant, head out late one snowy night to take their fevered daughter to the hospital. Tracy was driving.
When they were found a few hours later, their Ford Explorer had hit a telephone pole. Tracy was dead, her husband was injured and her daughter was unharmed and appeared to be fever-free.
The Medical Examiner, after trying and failing to get information on air bag fatalities, declaired the cause of death was asphixiation possibly caused by the force of the airbag.
It seems like nothing's amiss right? Are you sure, because Forensic experts hired by Ford disagree. They think it was murder.
This was a really engaging book covering all of the facts of this case. All through the book, I felt like I was on the journey of discovery with the lawyers. I speculated right along with them. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves true crime and to people who like crime shows, but are reluctant to read non-fiction crime accounts.
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