When the Moon Turns to Blood

Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and a Story of Murder, Wild Faith, and End Times

When the Moon Turns to Blood
Leah Sottile
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Hardback
h232 x 156mm - 320pg
7 Jul 2022 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9781538721353
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When police in Rexburg, Idaho perform a wellness check on seven J. J. Vallow and his sister, sixteen-year-old Tylee Ryan, both children are nowhere to be found. Their mother, Lori Vallow, gives a phony explanation, and when officers return the following day with a search warrant, she, too, is gone. As the police begin to close in, a larger web of mystery, murder, fanaticism and deceit begins to unravel. Vallow' s case is sinuously complex. As investigators prod further, they find the accused Black Widow has an unusual number of bodies piling up around her. WHEN THE MOON TURNS TO BLOOD tells a gripping story of extreme beliefs, snake oil prophets, and explores the question: if it feels like the world is ending, how are people supposed to act?
"This book, wide in scope and remarkable for its timeliness, is a riveting account of the entire case (which is currently awaiting trial), including an exquisitely researched history of LDS and its fringe offshoots. "--Booklist Starred Review "Beyond a crime story, Sottile weaves a ripper of tale - chilling, haunting, cautionary too! - that unveils the dangerous desire for acceptance on the fringes, and amid uncertain times. Insanely researched in scope, uniquely intimate in feel, buckle-up for this brave voyage into a tangled storm of ambition, lust and extremism. "--Geoff Gray, author of Skyjack "From one of the finest chroniclers of the U. S. Northwest working today, this book hooked me from the first line. In propulsive prose, Leah Sottile unspools a harrowing story of faith, violence, and fear. WHEN THE MOON TURNS TO BLOOD is a timely and provocative page-turner, as resonant as it is engrossing. In Sottile' s hands, a true crime yarn becomes a lens for examining the most pernicious aspects of far-right extremism in America. "--Seyward Darby, author of Sisters in Hate "Leah Sottile is the writer every journalist dreams of being: A crackerjack investigator who has a nose for the telling details everyone else misses, and a gifted writer who can craft a moving literary narrative. Most of all, WHEN THE MOON TURNS TO BLOOD is an important book whose real subject is far more than a simple, horrifying murder case: It is a gut-wrenching fable about our upside-down, gaslit times, and what it tells us about ourselves and our susceptibility to the unreality of authoritarian conspiracism is profoundly disturbing. Everyone should read it. "--David Neiwert, journalist and author of Red Pill, Blue Pill and Alt-America "Leah Sottile' s brilliant, unnerving WHEN THE MOON TURNS TO BLOOD weaves the story of one family' s tragedy into an exploration of end-times radicalism that spans generations. It belongs on the short list of essential books about religious extremism and violence in the West. "--Shawn Vestal, Columnist at The Spokesman-Review and author of Godforsaken Idaho "Through scrupulous reporting and a powerful narrative, Leah Sottile takes us into a dark world of dysfunctional families, perverted faith, false prophets and true psychopaths to show us that the human mind is the scariest realm of all. An important contribution to the literature of true crime. "--Mark Olshaker, coauthor of Mindhunter, The Killer Across the Table, and When a Killer Calls "WHEN THE MOON TURNS TO BLOOD is a harrowing and fascinating tale of apocalyptic obsession and murder. Leah Sottile leads us down every head-shaking twist and turn of the case, an expert guide to the dark tributaries of religious extremism that run closer to the American mainstream than we' d ever like to believe. "--Jess Walter, American author of seven novels, including #1 New York Times bestseller Beautiful Ruins
Leah Sottile' s investigations, longform features, profiles, and essays have been published by the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Atavist, Outside, and the Atlantic, among others. She is host of the podcasts Two Minutes Past Nine, on BBC Radio 4, and Bundyville-which was nominated twice for a National Magazine Award. She lives in Oregon.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781538721353
Published: 7 Jul 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Twelve
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Format: Hardback
Height: 232mm
Width: 156mm
Spine: 38mm
Weight: 540g
Pages: 320

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