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If You Tell

A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood

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If You Tell

By: Gregg Olsen
Narrated by: Karen Peakes
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2021 Audie Award Nominee for Best Nonfiction Audiobook

A #1 Wall Street Journal, Amazon Charts, USA Today, and Washington Post bestseller.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen’s shocking and empowering true-crime story of three sisters determined to survive their mother’s house of horrors.

After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle’s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now.

For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined. Even as others were drawn into their mother’s dark and perverse web, the sisters found the strength and courage to escape an escalating nightmare that culminated in multiple murders.

Harrowing and heartrending, If You Tell is a survivor’s story of absolute evil - and the freedom and justice that Nikki, Sami, and Tori risked their lives to fight for. Sisters forever, victims no more, they found a light in the darkness that made them the resilient women they are today - loving, loved, and moving on.

©2019 Gregg Olsen. (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
Abductions, Kidnapping & Missing Persons Crime Murder True Crime Emotionally Gripping Exciting Scary Disappearance Serial Killers True Crime Amish Nonfiction

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Critic reviews

"Peakes's performance sucks the listener into the scenes of abuse, torture, sadism, and, eventually, murder committed by Shelly.... Peakes's narration is compelling." --AudioFile Magazine

"This riveting account will leave readers questioning every odd relative they’ve known." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Olsen presents the story chronologically and in a simple, straightforward style, which works well: it is chilling enough as is." --Booklist

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Not my normal genre but Shocking and hard to put down. Humans can be so evil.

Shocking and hard to put down

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Brilliant book kept you wanting to keep reading . Very sad read . Would highly recommend this book . A real page Turner

A real page Turner

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Shocking that this is real. It’s a tough listen but fascinating and incredible. I’ve listened and read many true crime and this is one of the best

Shocking

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Such a heartbreaking story but very interesting, especially from a psychological viewpoint. Very thought-provoking where lessons should be learned from it.

Harrowing Story Well Written

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I felt more uncomfortable reading this book as it went along but a fantastic job by the author. Unfortunately behaviour like this does exist but is very difficult to recognise or just too uncomfortable to acknowledge. People need to be made aware though to stop it happening again. The more people understand what can happen may stop it happening to one less victim at least. I can't believe how the sisters have copied with it, my heart goes out to them but they've come out the other side. Incredible!

Harrowing but

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There is no denying this was difficult to listen to in parts but it’s an incredible story, very well written and narrated.

Difficult read well told

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I live Gregg Olsen, how he builds up to the crime or crimes by patiently giving us each characters history and life story.Pissubly his best book yet
Also great narration and story telling by the fantastic Karen Peaks

Mind Boggling,

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Great story just hard to listen to the abuse . the mother is a evil woman

Great but hard

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I watched a YouTube blog about this case and it’s just truly horrifying. Can’t imagine the trauma they all live with.

Horrific

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I first heard about this story via a true crime podcast and was recommended this book to get a more in depth insight.

This was my first audible experience as well and I did find the narrator quite robotic but I got used to it after an hour or so in.

This story is tragic and It was hard to wrap your head around how Shelly got away with treating people like this for so long (I found myself wishing Kathy and the Kids would just ambush her and leave).

It's definitely worth listening to.

Hard to believe it's a true story.

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