Reviews
Intertwined with this true-crime chronicle is the important story of how Adam's abduction turned his parents into powerful advocates for crime victims and how law enforcement agencies across the country changed their response to missing children cases., I didn t live far from the mall where Adam Walsh was kidnapped. I remember that story as if it were yesterday. It terrified me as a kid. But it s the details that Les Standiford has found that terrify me as an adult. Insightful, horrifying, and just beautifully written., Compelling, bittersweet… ably fleshes out the difficult yet familiar story with style, pathos and relevant historical detail., A riveting, harrowing, tautly suspenseful book that reads like a crime novel…but is all the more chilling for being fact, not fiction., BRINGING ADAM HOME is a riveting account of a child abduction and murder that goes unsolved for twenty-seven years both an unsettling expose of police incompetence and a portrait of an extraordinary and dedicated detective., [A] heartbreaking story of incompetent police and determined parents… Novelist and nonfiction author Les Standiford does a masterful job of re-creation, reporting and research… readers will be haunted by the maladroit investigation and the added anguish this caused the Walshes., '[A] heartbreaking story of incompetent police and determined parents? Novelist and nonfiction author Les Standiford does a masterful job of re-creation, reporting and research? readers will be haunted by the maladroit investigation and the added anguish this caused the Walshes.' (Los Angeles Times), "Charts with devastating precision the decades-long search for the killer and the evolution of Rev and John Walsh... from grieving parents into powerful advocates for missing children...Standiford's account is riveting, heartbreaking, and supports John Walsh's statement: "it's not about closure; it's about justice.", Not since IN COLD BLOOD has the story of a terrible crime been told with such elegance and power....Heartbreaking and hypnotically suspenseful., Les Standiford s account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything I ve ever read. A triumph in every way., "Charts with devastating precision the decades-long search for the killer and the evolution of Revé and John Walsh... from grieving parents into powerful advocates for missing children...Standiford's account is riveting, heartbreaking, and supports John Walsh's statement: "it's not about closure; it's about justice.", [M]ystery writer Les Standiford, in collaboration with Detective Sgt. Joe Matthews, has written a riveting and page-turning account of this heart-wrenching story., This tale of the most significant missing child case since the Lindbergh s that of TV host John Walsh s son Adam and the 25 year search for his killer is truly terrific.A taut, compelling and often touching book about a long march to justice., BRINGING ADAM HOME is a maddening, terrifying and ultimately triumphant book. Les Standiford explores the injustice and finally justice surrounding the murder of Adam Walsh. You will cry and rage but you will not be able to put this book down until you finish it. My God! What a book!, Bringing Adam Home is one of the finest true-crime books since Thomas Thompson's Blood and Money…This remarkable story will bring readers to tears of grief - and rage., While many true-crime books claim to shine a light on society by examining one particular case, this account actually does. No reader can come away from this without appreciating what it takes to keep pursuing an investigation, against the obstacles of police politics and bureaucracy. Wrenching and riveting.
