From the dust jacket- Growing up on Cape Cod in the 1960s, Liza Rodman was a lonely little girl. During the summers, while her mother worked days in a local motel and danced most nights in the Provincetown bars, her babysitter—the kind, handsome handyman at the motel where her mother worked—took her and her sister on adventures in his truck.
But there was one thing she didn’t know; their babysitter was a serial killer.
Some of his victims were buried—in pieces—right there, in his garden in the woods. Though Tony Costa’s gruesome case made screaming headlines in 1969 and beyond, Liza never made the connection between her friendly babysitter and the infamous killer of numerous women, including four in Massachusetts, until decades later.
Haunted by nightmares and horrified by what she learned, Liza became obsessed with the case. Now, she and cowriter Jennifer Jordan reveal the chilling and unforgettable true story of a charming but brutal psychopath through the eyes of a young girl who once called him her friend.
Review- An interesting memoir of an abused childhood with a serial killer on the side. Rodman was an adult when she discovered her favorite babysitter was a serial killer and that discovery led her down memory lane. Rodman doesn’t hold back on her past, sparing no one, not herself, not her parents, and not Costa. But I liked the memoir part of this book better. It was a very compelling look at a child surviving a narcissistic parent as the scapegoat. The parts about Costa were well written and well researched but not as drawing to me as Rodman’s story itself. I would like to read more about her and her life after and into the functioning adult she became.
I give this book a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this book from my local library.
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