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read this book several times and always learn something new about the negative effect the members of this family have on one another, It is like a group of people who do the exact thing that will escalate the situation and then they use the results to justify their own negative thoughts and actions.
This is also a clear example of what happens to people who continually reward bad behavior with attention and good or neutral action with neglect or worse,

There is another book about Frances Schreuder, but this book goes into much more detail in the life of Frances, I had puzzled over the actions of her mother, Berenice, It was hard to understand why she was so connected to Frances, who was such a difficult child and who treated her so badly, This book did a much better job of exploring that relationship,

Frances was clearly sociopathic and it was fascinating reading about her view of the world through her own eyes, No matter how clever a sociopath is, they will never be able to cover their tracks completely because they will never be able to understand and copy ordinary people who can empathize with others or truly love them.
In the book, her relationship with her son, Mark, whom she favored and could always control, was a clear example, However close he was to her and however much favored he was, she turned her back on him as soon as he was no longer useful to her, This was a fascinating study, Coleman details the family history and legal investigation of Frances Schreuder, who "hired" her sons to murder their grandfather Bradshaw, The book is wellwritten without being sensationalistic, I was especially intrigued because their family was raised LDS, Their dysfunctional family profile was fascinating, A compelling true crime narrative, Fascinating but way too long!! I give up, This is a story of greed, envy, betrayal, and finally the murder of a tightfisted millionaire patriarch by his unbalanced daughter's needy son, At her request! It should be riveting! It should be half as long!

This book was wellresearched, but the author basically vomited everything he found out about these people, imposing all of his knowledge upon the story whether or not the information was necessary to move forward.
He also spends pages quoting Shakespeare and Freud when a simple paraphrase would have sufficed,

I can't take anymore, I'm returning this book to the library in the morning,



This book is an extremely lengthy coverage of how the effects of a broken family, greed, and mental illness can conspire to lead to murder, In my opinion, its kind of too lengthy I personally loved the backstories up to the murder, but it was more of a slog in the later parts, Also, there were some family members that I wanted to learn more about, like Robert,

Makes you wonder what they're doing right now, . . I had wanted to read this book for years, mainly because I knew Jonathan Coleman was a friend of mine in High School, I am glad I did, although there were so many characters and lawyers that at times I wished I had a spreadsheet to keep them straight, But this book made me realize how lucky I was to have a stable family, I had trouble understanding how family members could be so bad to each other, and how greedy some people could be, The fact that Larry attended Lehigh, and I could picture locations in the book made it even more interesting to me as a Lehigh graduate, Great job Jonathan. I am finally finished with this LONG, drawn out book about a woman who had her son kill her father, his grandfather, for inheritance money, Every piece of information, evidence, court testimony, and people involved with this case are mentioned, and mentioned again, until you are sick of hearing what happened, what might have happened, who is telling the truth, who is lying, and who is out of their mind.
If you are interested in this kind of story, especially since it's true, then you'll enjoy this book like some reviewers did, But I think I'd much rather see the movie! My overall concern was the longevity, It took almostpages to get to anything relating to the original title, Another real crime novel from Utah, I remember when Bradshaw was murdered, I also remember seeig Bradshaw auto parts stores around, I later met several of the lawyers mentioned in this book when I practiced, Really sad and horrible. An awful account of what a sociopath can do inside a family, This book, to me, was a real page turner, I read itspages in a matter of five or six days, which to me is very quickly, Coleman brought the story and its characters to life, I had a real sense of what it was like to be a member of this sad, pathetic, dysfunctional family, I wish he'd do a follow up to tell what has happened since it was published, I searched for Livinia Schreuder and found her on Facebook, I don't know what I would want to say to her, though, Insanity begets insanity This is another book I bought through amazon UK while I was buying some books for my dad for father's day,
No idea why I picked this one, Probably because it was on my amazon, com wish list.

The way I add books to that list is mostly based on reviews although nowadays you cannot truststar ratings anymore, and on my fellow true crime readers,here on goodreads but also the ones on amazon like Dan Bogaty or Kim.


This is a huge paperback and I read the firstpages to check if I liked the writing style and yes I do,



Update: In the beginning of this book You get to know Franklin Bradshaw and his wife Berenice, I thought they were a very interesting pair to say the least,
Then we got to know the children a bit more and only then it dawned on me, Francis their youngest daughter married someone and became Francis Schreuder and I knew I had already read a very good book about her and her sons, To be fair I was not happy when i realized it cause I remembered quite a lot and was really enjoying this book so far but when it brought me on familiar territory I was not sure if I wanted to continue because i already knew the case.


Well I did and the writing is excellent, I am not sure which of thebooks I would recommend, The other book is called Nutcracker by Shana Alexander,
sitelinkNutcracker: Money, Madness, Murder: A Family Album

Looking at my review I now see why this book by mister Coleman was on my wish list, I wanted to know more about this case and well this book helped a lot,

What a crazy family and to be honest, they did remind me quite a lot about my own family alas, Lot of talking behind backs by mum about her children,

To all my tc friends, Buy this book. If you are in America you get it for so cheap and when you are in Europe it is still not expensive cause you can buy the book forcents.
he shipping costs are expensive but it is worth it, So well written and what an intriguing, crazy but interesting family,

It is huge though, My paperback haspages oh and it also contains notes sostar rating!


One of my favorite books, . . Love me some Frances!!! This was, of course, fascinating as the company is a local Utah company, but the story was so sad, Jonathan Colemans newest book which the writer Gay Talese has already praised, well before publication, as exceptional and powerful is a collaboration with the legendary Jerry West, the silhouetted figure of the NBA logo: WEST BY WEST: My Charmed, Tormented Life, to be published by Little, Brown in October.
In addition, he narrates documentaries for which he has won two awards and audio books, and does voiceovers for commercials, His previous book, LONG WAY TO GO: Black and White in America, has been called a classic Morris Dees, Southern Poverty Law Center, history and journalism at its best Andrew Hacker, author of Two Nations and received front page reviews in the New York Times Book , the Washington Post Boo Jonathan Coleman's newest book which the writer Gay Talese has already praised, well before publication, as "exceptional" and "powerful" is a collaboration with the legendary Jerry West, the silhouetted figure of the NBA logo: WEST BY WEST: My Charmed, Tormented Life, to be published by Little, Brown in October.
In addition, he narrates documentaries for which he has won two awards and audio books, and does voiceovers for commercials, His previous book, LONG WAY TO GO: Black and White in America, has been called "a classic" Morris Dees, Southern Poverty Law Center, "history and journalism at its best" Andrew Hacker, author of Two Nations and received front page reviews in the New York Times Book , the Washington Post Book World, and the Chicago Tribune.
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Mr. Coleman traveled tocities in the fall of, taking part in symposiums that centered around the book and the subject of race, and he served as an adviser to President Clinton's Initiative on Race as well as an adviser on racial unity to Bill Bradley's presidential campaign.
All of Mr. Coleman's research related to Long Way to Go can be found at the Golda Meir Library of the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Mr. Coleman was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of Virginia in, The following year, he worked in London for The New , a literary magazine, Fromto, he worked in book publishing, first at Alfred A, Knopf and later as a senior editor and member of the editorial board of Simon and Schuster, Among the books he edited were Peter Taylor's In the Miro District, Robert Lindsey's The Falcon and the Snowman, Jeffrey Archer's Kane and Abel, Don Imus's God's Other Son, David S.
Broder's Changing of the Guard, Elizabeth Drew's Senator, William S, Cohen's Roll Call, Jonathan Raban's Old Glory and Arabia, Shiva Naipaul's North of South and Journey to Nowhere, Fred Kaplan's The Wizards of Armageddon, Richard Norton Smith's Thomas E, Dewey and His Times, and Donald Johanson's Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, In, in a piece about publishing, he was profiled in Time magazine as one of the best editors in the field, Fromto, he worked at CBS News as a producer and a correspondent, and where he initially began to investigate the story that led to his first book, At Mother's Request.
Published in, it was a Book of the Month Club selection and made the New York Times bestseller list in both hardcover and paperback, Favorably compared by the critics to such books as Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song, it was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, All of Coleman's research related to At Mother's Request is with the Marriott Library at the University of Utah, In, a miniseries based on his book aired on CBS, and he made a cameo appearance, In the fall of, his second work of nonfiction, Exit the Rainmaker, was a featured selection of the Book of the Month Club and was praised by Time "Striking", The New York Times Book "Fascinating" and The Los Angeles Times Book "A fascinating symbolic statement of the American psyche".
In addition, he wrote a profile of Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Civil Rights Memorial, for Time, In, when Exit the Rainmaker was published in paperback, it became a New York Times bestseller, In, Coleman wrote a piece on Little League that was subsequently cited for Special Mention in Best American Sports Writing, Over the years his articles have covered a variety of subjects: the world's largest Polaroid camera the water towers of Manhattan the mysterious drowning of three black teenagers in Texas on Juneteenth the way in which technology has made us "intimate strangers" a small parking problem that John Grisham made a big deal over profiles of Don Imus, Jeff Sonnenfeld which answers, among other things, the question of sitelink.