American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood, and the Cyanide Murders That Shook the World

Read the Wall Street Journal bestseller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell—an absolutely unputdownable and chilling true-crime story of Stella Nickell—a mother and wife who did the unthinkable… and the unforgiveable.

At 5.02 pm on June 5, 1986, an emergency call came into the local sheriff’s office in the small town of Auburn, Washington State. A distressed housewife, Stella Nickell, said her husband Bruce was having a seizure. Officers rushed to the Nickell’s mo...