Anybody who went to school or is now a parent—which means just about all of us—will recognize the portrait of Jill and Kent Easter that Los Angeles Times reporter Christopher Goffard presents in his masterful tale of stunningly bad behavior, slick police work and needlessly wrecked lives.
Goffard pulls together a stranger-than-fiction account of parental obsession, revenge and destruction, leavened with infidelity and courtroom drama. It played out in an affluent L.A. suburb but could have happened wherever parents worry about their children.
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