My Sweet Angel
The True Story of Lacey Spears, the Seemingly Perfect Mother Who Murdered Her Son in Cold Blood

This was a true crime where it felt someone was pulling on my heartstrings. Wow so hard to read. I have always "enjoyed"reading books about children who suffer from women with munchausen by proxy. I hate absolutely hate when you read in news articles or even in this case a judge saying the mum suffe......more

Wow! Just Wow! This book is about a young mother with the diagnosis of Munchausen's by proxy who eventually killed her little boy. While it is a hard subject to read about I think it is something everyone should know about. This boy may have lived if the people in her life and the doctors had been m......more

John Glatt has the ability to write interesting books, but can sometimes repeat himself and that's what happened here. The story itself was, for lack of a better word, fucked up. I remember hearing about this case, but I never went deeply into it. And it's probably better that I didn't... Also an oddi......more

I think the title says it all... Well, actually, there's a whole lot more to the short life of little Garnett Spears. This is a well told true story, through which there are many "intake of breath" instances, particularly as it involves such a young child and his own mother. You don't have to be a mot......more

This is perhaps the most heart wrenching true crime book I have ever read. Lacey Spears... I just have no words. It's not that I had never heard of munchausen by proxy but I've never read a case where that was the most likely cause of a child's death. If you have strong reactions to stories that inc......more