Almost Paradise, Kieran Crowley
Almost Paradise, Kieran Crowley
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Almost Paradise
The East Hampton Murder of Ted Ammon

Author: Kieran Crowley

Narrator: Danny Campbell

Unabridged: 12 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 01/02/2018


Synopsis

For the audience that read Maria Flook’s New York Times bestseller, Invisible Eden, this is the extraordinary story of a high-stakes murder case set in the high society world of East Hampton—the playground of New York’s superrich.On October 22, 2001, handsome multimillionaire financier Ted Ammon was found bludgeoned to death in the magnificent East Hampton mansion he’d built with his beautiful—and volatile—wife, Generosa. She stood to make millions, but it wasn’t the money that made Ted’s friends suspicious: Generosa Ammon had a history of violent outbursts and bizarre obsessions.A talented decorator, Generosa had fashioned a lavish lifestyle for her husband and their two children, divided between Fifth Avenue, the Long Island estate, and a manor house in England. But when Generosa discovered Ted had a mistress, her demons were unleashed.She began a very public affair with Danny Pelosi, a strikingly handsome womanizer who was also her electrician. She called him her “tool belt guy.” But he was also an ex-con with a mile-long rap sheet who was suspected of playing a pivotal role in Ted’s murder and the final destruction of a once-perfect family.In Almost Paradise, New York Times bestselling author Kieran Crowley, who has covered the Ammon case from the time it broke, recreates the three tumultuous lives that intersected fatally in East Hampton that fall. He tracks Generosa’s lonely transformation from angry teenager—orphaned, unwanted, and abused—to temperamental Manhattan artist and Society Wife. He follows the rambunctious odyssey that transformed Danny Pelosi from banking executive’s privileged son, to street fighter and down-on-his luck alcoholic, to unsuccessful contractor charged with murder. And he chronicles the charmed life and tragic death of Ted Ammon, whose money and status couldn’t save him from the machinations of those around him and his ultimate brutal demise.

About Kieran Crowley

Kieran Crowley is the New York Times bestselling author of The Surgeon's Wife, Burned Alive, and Sleep My Little Dead, an award-winning reporter for the New York Post. His investigative reporting on a series of dismemberment murders of prostitutes helped lead homicide detectives to serial killer Robert Shulman, who told police after his arrest that he halted his killing spree when he read a description of himself and his car in one of Crowley's stories. Crowley has covered hundreds of trials and thousands of murders, including the assassination of John Lennon, as well as the cases of Amy Fisher, Katie Beers, the Long Island Railroad Massacre, and serial killer Joel Rifkin.


Reviews

Goodreads review by J.H. on August 21, 2017

This book was about 200 pages longer than it needed to be. Much like other true crime I've read recently, it's hard to feel sorry for the victim, who was portrayed as a womanizer who cheated on his faithful wife and got another woman pregnant. While he didn't deserve to be murdered, of course, it's......more

Goodreads review by Carla on January 24, 2024

A true crime book that presented facts and let you get to know those involved.......more

Goodreads review by Ronnie on July 26, 2017

This book was a long, strange, and fascinating journey. The denouement was a little underwhelming, but that's hardly the fault of the author, who did a great job of storytelling.......more

Goodreads review by Lenny on October 17, 2013

Excellent portrayal of money contributing to the demise of family and friends.......more

Goodreads review by Jane on July 25, 2007

A must read! This book has everything a true crime book should, I literally could not put it down!......more