All-American Murder: The Rise and Fall of Aaron Hernandez, the Superstar Whose Life Ended on Murderers' Row

Today's Non-fiction post is on All-American Murder: The Rise and Fall of Aaron Hernandez, the Superstar Whose Life Ended on Murderers' Row by James Patterson, Alex Abramovich, and Mike Harvkey. It is 400 pages long and is published by Litte, Brown, and Company. The cover is black  with an american flag under the title. The intended reader is someone who likes true crime. There Be Spoilers Ahead.

From the back of the book-  Aaron Hernandez was a college All-American who became the youngest player in the NFL and later reached the Super Bowl. His every move as a tight end with the New England Patriots played out the headlines, yet he led a secret life--one that ended in a maximum-security prison. What drove him to go so wrong, so fast?
Between the summers of 2012 and 2013, not long after Hernandez made his first Pro Bowl, he was linked to a series of violent incidents culminating in the death of Odin Lloyd, a semi-pro football player who dated the sister of Hernandez's fiancée, Shayanna Jenkins.
All-American Murder is the first book to investigate Aaron Hernandez's first-degree murder conviction and the mystery of his own shocking and untimely death.

Review- This is the story of a murderer, who he was, who he killed, and maybe how it all happened. Patterson has decided to write up some non-fiction to spice up his catalog and this is the second of his non-fiction offering I have read. It is interesting, well written, and concise about what happened and the characters that drive this drama. We start at the end with the discovery of Odin Lloyd’s body and how the police tracked him back to Aaron Hernandez. Hernandez was a young man with a lot of talent in sports, a family who loved him, and a bright future; but life happened to him and his family. His father protected his sons from the darker sizes of life but after his untimely death, everything changed for Aaron Hernandez. He was a gifted athlete but he was easily swayed by others around him. But in the end no one else to blame for Hernandez’s actions but himself. He was found guilty of three murders and I think that he did them. I think that he killed them for stupid reasons or no reason at all, in the case of the double murders. Patterson and company did good research for this book and I enjoyed the spare writing style, I think that it suited the tone of the story itself. If you want to know more about the case around Aaron Hernandez, then I would recommend this book.

I give this book a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this book from local library.