SHATTERED BONDS. A True Story of Suspicious Death, Family Betrayal and a Daughter's Courage

Hardback. Love, power, social standing and money. Her family seemed to have it all. However, when pretty, popular, 16yr. old Cindy Band returned home from a party late one night, she found the family mansion in Old Westbury, on Lond Island, aglow with emergency vehicle lights and teeming with police. Her vivacious mother, Florence Band was dead. Her body lay crumpled at the bottom of the basement stairs, supposedly the victim of a fall. It seemed a terrible accident. But was there a more evil malevolent explanation? Turning to her father for support, Cindy found him distant and aloof. And though the autopsy report on her mother was inconclusive, Cindy began to see signs her father may not be the grieving husband he ought to be. In the weeks that followed, Cindy began to suspect the unimaginable: that her father may be repsonsible for her mother's death. This is the gripping story of how one young woman fought and bravely persevered in her quest to achieve justice for her murdered mother, even though her own life was at stake. Illus. 324pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. in f. dw.