The Manson Women and Me
  • Published: 5 March 2019
  • ISBN: 9780806538594
  • Imprint: Kensington
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $26.99

The Manson Women and Me

Monsters, Morality, and Murder

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A stunning and insightful look at one of the most notorious murders of the 20th century - and into the very heart of evil. Broadcast journalist and psychotherapist Nikki Meredith reveals her surprising personal relationships with two of the women involved in the Manson family's Tate/LaBianca murders. Exploring the dark theme of the human capacity for cruelty, she follows in the tradition of bestselling authors Katherine Ramsland and Jeffrey Toobin in going behind the headlines to find the deeper, more shocking truth.

The Manson Women and Me

  In the summer of 1969, Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel carried out horrific acts of butchery on the orders of the charismatic cult leader Charles Manson. But to anyone who knew them growing up, they were bright, promising girls, seemingly incapable of such an unfathomable crime.
 
Award-winning journalist Nikki Meredith began visiting Van Houten and Krenwinkel in prison to discover how they had changed during their incarceration. The more Meredith got to know them, the more she was lured into a deeper dilemma: What compels “normal” people to do unspeakable things?
 
The author’s relationship with her subjects provides a chilling lens through which we gain insight into a particular kind of woman capable of a particular kind of brutality. Through their stories, Nikki Meredith takes readers on a dark journey into the very heart of evil.
  • Published: 5 March 2019
  • ISBN: 9780806538594
  • Imprint: Kensington
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $26.99
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Praise for The Manson Women and Me

"Through the intriguing prism of her own turbulent youth in Los Angeles, Meredith melds her decades of prison relationships with inmates Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel with insights gained while chasing the elusive psychological truths behind such horrifically incomprehensible brutality...Meredith's book brings us closer than any other to understanding why."
--Sue Russell, author of Lethal Intent

"Part memoir, part true crime, The Manson Women and Me is a must-read book...an eye-opening book that I simply could not stop reading."
--Suzy Spencer, New York Times bestselling author of Wasted, Wages of Sin, and Breaking Point

"Meredith uses her impressive journalist skills and narrative powers to give us a fully realized dimensional view of the infamous Manson-led killings that we have not seen before--specifically in helping us understand who the Manson women followers were
and what led them to follow him into the throes of a moral maelstrom."
--Michael Krasny, Ph.D. award-winning host of KQED's Forum

"Combining a compassionate memoir with meticulous journalism, author Nikki Meredith has produced a thought-provoking meditation on nothing less than the nature of evil."
--Julie Smith, Edgar Award-winning author