Sins of the Son, Carlton Stowers
Sins of the Son, Carlton Stowers
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Sins of the Son

Author: Carlton Stowers

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Unabridged: 7 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/28/2019


Synopsis

When a hideous murder makes the headlines, a barrage of questions usually appears in its wake: Why did this happen? Could it have been prevented? What kind of family was the criminal from? Are his parents in some way to blame? Any crime writer worth his salt would attempt to answer these questions—but how do you address such questions when the killer is your own son?

As a single father raising two sons, Carlton Stowers did his best to instill in his boys a healthy sense of right and wrong. But with Anson, his oldest, it would prove to be an ongoing uphill battle. At a young age, Anson began to angrily shun authority, and soon became involved with a number of illicit activities, including drugs, forgery, and theft. After each jail stay, Anson would vow to get clean and start anew. It became a revolving door for both father and son, until Anson, twenty-five years old and strung-out on amphetamines, brutally murdered his young ex-wife.

In a brave, honest, and moving work, bestselling true-crime writer Carlton Stowers examines the downfall of his eldest son, once a happy child full of promise, now a convicted murderer serving a sixty-year sentence. With a reporter's shrewdness and a father's heart, Stowers presents a true story of two lives irrevocably lost, and of one man struggling to both understand—and move beyond—the . . . Sins of the Son.

About Carlton Stowers

Carlton Stowers is the author of more than two dozen works of nonfiction, including the Edgar Award-winning Careless Whispers, the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Innocence Lost, and Open Secrets. He and his wife live in Cedar Hill, Texas.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer on September 29, 2015

This book kept me engaged the whole time I was reading it. The book was written by the father of a convicted killer who slipped into a downward spiral of drugs, stealing and petty crimes which eventually to a long prison sentence. Throughout the story, the author wrote about how it personally affect......more

Goodreads review by ErikaShmerika on August 25, 2023

Don’t read this book if you have any knowledge of traumatic family systems. It will just make you angry. It’s hard to respect the author after reading this account of his troubled first born. He tried his best, though. Queue massive eye roll.......more

Goodreads review by Crystal on October 24, 2023

This book is written by the father of a man who murders his wife. 98% of the book is about his life as writer, his sons life and earlier crimes and his marriages. The murder isn’t talked about until 35 pages before the book ends and it isn’t spoken about in the detail you would normally expect from......more

Goodreads review by Sandy on December 26, 2009

Carlton Stowers wrote this nook about his son. It was a very well written book. His son Anson started using drugs at an early age. After that, Anson just never seemed to be able to get it together again. He was in and out of prison, then one day, while strung out on Meth he killed his wife by beatin......more

Goodreads review by Kim on August 02, 2020

This is a very well written book. It is difficult for many to ever understand living a trauma life. That is exactly what this author and his family have done. You see the world from a completely different perspective when you are always waiting for the other shoe to fall, and wondering how you can e......more