Sudden Fury: A True Story of Adoption and Murder

by Leslie Walker

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312034369
• ISBN13: 9780312034368
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The review is very factual

Coming from someone who grew up in the neighborhood where this crime happened and knowing the murderer, I found this book chilling. For those of us who knew him, Larry was anything but antisocial. He tried hard to please. I think the book depicted the case in very factual details. It's difficult to read even now many years after the incident.

an emotional whodunnit

Not your typical whodunnit, Sudden Fury is one of the better true crime books I've read. It's an emotional whodunnit of sorts, a chilling account of a boy abandoned into the foster care system who grew up to be violent. I especially liked the alternating story lines--the present-tense crime investigation alternating with the child's upbringing. I found the writing style objective in a way that made it compelling. The tragedy, I felt, was heightened by the fact the adoptive parents were so well meaning, however misguided they may have been. I felt the author struck a delicate balance between blaming the adoptive parents, the boy and the social welfare system for the horrible outcome. While depressing, I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the psychology of violence.