Publisher's Synopsis
Praise for Internal Combustion "The sensitivity and insight, both psychological and deeply personal, that Maynard brings to her exploration of this brutal, seemingly unfathomable murder elevate Internal Combustion to a place far above the true crime shelf. Her reporting floors me. Her pacing is seamless, swift, unerring. This book runs like a ′69 Shelby." Mary Roach, author of the best–selling Stiff and Spook "As relentlessly hypnotic as In Cold Blood. A book that barrels us down a dark stretch of the American Dream, where families fracture, secrets take root, and ′till death do us part′ takes on a whole new meaning." Jason Roberts, author, A Sense of the World "One of the great evil–Mommie stories of all time. Part murder mystery, part dysfunctional family story, part self–help book, the subtitle could be: how a hatchet murder taught me to love my children and to accept the terms of my divorce. Nowhere have I seen a better expression of Samuel Beckett′s observation that love is a kind of lethal glue." Errol Morris, filmmaker, The Fog of War and The Thin Blue Line
