BOOK 234: AND THE SEA WILL TELL: VINCENT BUGLIOSI AND BRUCE HENDERSON

Alone with her new husband on a tiny Pacific atoll, a young woman, combing the beach, finds an odd aluminum container washed up out of the lagoon, and beside it on the sand something glitters—a gold tooth in a scorched human skull. The investigation that follows uncovers an extraordinarily complex and puzzling true-crime story.

Only Vincent Bugliosi, who recounted his successful prosecution of mass murderer Charles Manson in the bestseller Helter Skelter, was able to draw together the hundreds of conflicting details of the mystery and reconstruct what really happened when four people found hell in a tropical paradise. And the Sea Will Tell reconstructs the events and subsequent trial of a riveting true murder mystery, and probes into the dark heart of a serpentine scenario of death.

(From Goodreads)

MY VERDICT: This book, although interesting and full of information and stories, is a hard slog. It’s not a fun and imaginative read, it is full of facts and holds back on opinions and flowery language and anything of that kind. And it’s really, really long. I am generally interested in court cases but these sections seemed to drag the most and if you’re not interested in them at all I would avoid this book. Also avoid this book if you like conclusions and clear outcomes. I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone as I think it’s just too hard work. I think the story itself is interesting but I’m sure you could look it up on wikipedia and find the story itself without all the extra legal bits this book is crammed with.