Evidence of Love, Jim Atkinson
Evidence of Love, Jim Atkinson
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Evidence of Love
A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs

Author: Jim Atkinson, John Bloom

Narrator: Charles Constant

Unabridged: 12 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/29/2019


Synopsis

Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the Methodist church choir, their daughters were best friends, and their husbands had good jobs working for technology companies in the north Dallas suburbs known as Silicon Prairie. But beneath the placid surface of their seemingly perfect lives, both women simmered with unspoken frustrations and unanswered desires.

On a hot summer day in 1980, the secret passions and jealousies that linked Candy and Betty exploded into murderous rage. What happened next is usually the stuff of fiction. But the bizarre and terrible act of violence that occurred in Betty's utility room that morning was all too real.

Based on exclusive interviews with the Montgomery and Gore families, Evidence of Love is the riveting account of a gruesome tragedy and the trial that made national headlines when the defendant entered the most unexpected of pleas: not guilty by reason of self-defense (Fort Worth Star-Telegram).

Adapted into the Emmy and Golden Globe Award–winning television movie A Killing in a Small Town, this chilling tale of sin and savagery will "fascinate true crime aficionados" (Kirkus Reviews).

About Jim Atkinson

Jim Atkinson is an award-winning reporter, television correspondent, and crime writer. The founding editor of D, the magazine of Dallas, he has contributed to Esquire, Gourmet, GQ, Texas Monthly, and the New York Times, among other publications. He is coauthor, with John Bloom, of the true crime classic Evidence of Love, and the author of The View from Nowhere, a guide to "the best serious drinking bars in America."


Reviews

Goodreads review by j e w e l s on August 07, 2018

FIVE ENGROSSING STARS I actually read this for the first time back in 1985 when I was a mere toddler. Well, maybe a little older than that. I grew up in Plano, TX (go Wildcats!) and I remember this particular Friday the 13th, 1980, almost like it was yesterday. I had just graduated from high school a......more

Goodreads review by Angie on January 26, 2014

So I was home alone and watched the Amazon Prime Instant Stream of this old Lifetime type movie.....in a fit of excessive girlishness I bought a couple of true crime books based on my day of movie watching. I digress. I've come to the conclusion that the genre of True Crime was better written in the......more

Goodreads review by Elle G. Reads on July 01, 2022

MINI REVIEW: I thought this was a well written true crime novel but it felt really long while reading. One of the chapters even said it would take an hour and a half to read which is a bit over the top for me! Despite that though I did enjoy it and now I'm ready to watch the Hulu original show tha......more