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An emotional tour-de-force...heart-pounding, gut-wrenching...will thrill True Crime and memoir fams alike. -- Shondaland Eerily compelling. -- The Provincetown Independent Engrossing...a page-turner. -- Publishers Weekly Fascinating...captivating...gripping, tense, harrowing, and balanced....The authors move it beyond mere entertainment and toward a challenging exploration of family and dysfunction. In the end, this is a story of Liza Rodman's survival and strength. -- The Bookreporter Haunting...chilling...This enthralling memoir deftly intertwines the stormy childhood of one of the authors and the life and brutal acts of the serial killer who often watched over her. -- Shelf Awareness Like a real-life horror movie, The Babysitter is a harrowing account of the evil that can lurk around the edges of girlhood. --Carolyn Murnick, author of The Hot One The intimate details and easy-to-read style will keep readers glued to the page. -- Booklist The Babysitter vividly describes how brokenness begets brokenness, how the lives of girls and women are inherently perilous, and how dangerous it can be to presume that children's capacity for resilience is limitless. -- Winnipeg Free Press The Babysitter is a gripping read that's impossible to put down: a string of gristly murders, a cast of charismatic, often abusive, and occasionally pathological characters, a comically incompetent police force, and an astute child's perspective on the adults in her life. More profoundly, it raises questions about how children manage to adapt and survive in a world in which love, attention, and violence are inextricably intertwined. --Helen Fremont, bestselling author of The Escape Artist and After Long Silence Brilliantly researched and hauntingly rendered, The Babysitter is a deeply inquisitive examination of what it means to live and grow on the outside of violence, of danger. As generous as it is chilling, this impressive and startling narrative orbits the realms of meditation, fact, and memory. --Amy Butcher, author of Visiting Hours Continues a tradition started by Ann Rule's The Stranger Beside Me...and is a compelling, sensitive hybrid of memoir and true crime...straightforward, unwavering in its clarity. -- The Independent I was utterly captivated by The Babysitter, a hybrid memoir & true crime investigation of the heinous crimes of a Cape Cod serial killer who also happened to be the only adult young Liza Rodman felt safe with. Rodman and Jordan's book skillfully weaves a suspenseful portrayal of murderous madness in tandem with a child's growing loneliness, neglect, and despair, a narrative collision that will haunt me, and readers, for years. --Sarah Weinman, author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit and Obsession

An emotional tour-de-force...heart-pounding, gut-wrenching...will thrill True Crime and memoir fams alike.

"""An emotional tour-de-force...heart-pounding, gut-wrenching...will thrill True Crime and memoir fams alike.""-- ""Shondaland"" ""Eerily compelling.""-- ""The Provincetown Independent"" ""Engrossing...a page-turner.""-- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""Fascinating...captivating...gripping, tense, harrowing, and balanced....The authors move it beyond mere entertainment and toward a challenging exploration of family and dysfunction. In the end, this is a story of Liza Rodman's survival and strength.""-- ""The Bookreporter"" ""Haunting...chilling...This enthralling memoir deftly intertwines the stormy childhood of one of the authors and the life and brutal acts of the serial killer who often watched over her.""-- ""Shelf Awareness"" ""Like a real-life horror movie, The Babysitter is a harrowing account of the evil that can lurk around the edges of girlhood.""--Carolyn Murnick, author of The Hot One ""The intimate details and easy-to-read style will keep readers glued to the page.""-- ""Booklist"" ""The Babysitter vividly describes how brokenness begets brokenness, how the lives of girls and women are inherently perilous, and how dangerous it can be to presume that children's capacity for resilience is limitless.""-- ""Winnipeg Free Press"" ""The Babysitter is a gripping read that's impossible to put down: a string of gristly murders, a cast of charismatic, often abusive, and occasionally pathological characters, a comically incompetent police force, and an astute child's perspective on the adults in her life. More profoundly, it raises questions about how children manage to adapt and survive in a world in which love, attention, and violence are inextricably intertwined.""--Helen Fremont, bestselling author of The Escape Artist and After Long Silence ""Brilliantly researched and hauntingly rendered, The Babysitter is a deeply inquisitive examination of what it means to live and grow on the outside of violence, of danger. As generous as it is chilling, this impressive and startling narrative orbits the realms of meditation, fact, and memory."" --Amy Butcher, author of Visiting Hours ""Continues a tradition started by Ann Rule's The Stranger Beside Me...and is a compelling, sensitive hybrid of memoir and true crime...straightforward, unwavering in its clarity.""-- ""The Independent"" ""I was utterly captivated by The Babysitter, a hybrid memoir & true crime investigation of the heinous crimes of a Cape Cod serial killer who also happened to be the only adult young Liza Rodman felt safe with. Rodman and Jordan's book skillfully weaves a suspenseful portrayal of murderous madness in tandem with a child's growing loneliness, neglect, and despair, a narrative collision that will haunt me, and readers, for years."" --Sarah Weinman, author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit and Obsession"

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Liza Rodman attended the University of Massachusetts/Amherst in the late 1970s and received her Bachelor of Arts with a concentration in creative writing from Vermont College in 2005. She has balanced life as a mother, stepmother, writer, and tax accountant for more than thirty-five years. Liza and her husband have three children, five grandchildren, and live outside Boston. The Babysitter is her first book. Jennifer Jordan is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and screenwriter with decades of experience as a news anchor and investigative journalist. She has worked for NPR and PBS, and her work has also appeared in a variety of national and international newspapers and magazines. She has directed and produced several documentaries, including 3000 Cups of Tea, which revealed the flawed 60 Minutes report on renowned philanthropist Greg Mortenson. In addition to her own books Savage Summit and Last Man on the Mountain, she has ghostwritten two others. The Babysitter is her fifth book.

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