Heartless: The True Story of Neil Entwistle and the Cold Blooded Murder of his Wife and Child (St. Martin's True Crime Library) | 
 enlarge | Author: Michele R. Mcphee
Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0312947763
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.1523097444
EAN: 9780312947767
ASIN: 0312947763
Publication Date: June 3, 2008
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Neil seemed like a dream come true for Rachel: a handsome, impeccably mannered, success-oriented Englishman, the fairytale husband she had dreamed of meeting. By the time Neil and Rachel Entwistle were husband and wife, living the good life in a New England town, it was too late to guess the truth: that beneath Neil’s good looks and manners was a deceit and darkness… On a winter day in 2006, police came to the Entwistle home and found the decomposing bodies of twenty-seven-year-old Rachel and their nine-month old daughter Lillian Rose. Rachel had been shot in the head. Lillian in the stomach. And Neil was gone. Soon, authorities would begin a desperate search that would take them across the Atlantic to find Neil…and bring him to trial.
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 Poor and inaccurate August 12, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A book you shoud avoid. Boring and badly written. The crime, its motives, and the backgroud of the killer is described at best poorly, not to say it is summarized very shortly, while the rest of the book contains tedious court reports cited verbatim and lenghty descriptions of the lawyers experience... To sum up, the interesting part is left aside, while inaccurate details are overly developped
 Waste of money...waste of time August 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Being from Mass (where the murders occurred) and being a fan of true crime books, I decided to give this a whirl. Everything that is mentioned in this book can pretty much be Googled. This book was obviously rushed out to the store shelves with all the hype surrounding Entwistle's recent trial and verdict. This book is littered with typos and and veers off course at times. This book wouldve been a lot better if it mentioned anything about the trial and his verdict.
Disappointing July 26, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was not a sarisfying crime book. The back cover says "...and bring him to trial." but there is no trial in the book. It seems like a book that was rushed out before the story was complete (before the trial)just to exploit the tabloid-like interest in the case. Also, it is not well written. The author constantly veers off course, breaking the momentum, to write about other cases. This feels like padding to me. I did not buy the book to read about myriad other cases, so many I lost count. The focus seems to remain mostly on the emotions of the victim's family.
It is also very repititious, telling the same thing over and over. What is satifying to me about a true crime book is the entire story, including the trial. This was an incomplete story, and could have been told in much fewer that its 245 pages.
try spell check July 24, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
do not by this book. how can you publish a true crime story and not include the trial or the final result's? the most gripping testimony came from niel's mother,when after her son was convicted,suggested that Rachel might have commited murder-suicide. may they rest in Peace.
you have total disregard for both families of the victims July 19, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
There are no insights in this book on how this horrible crime could have been prevented. The author inserts a lot of speculation on the mental states of both Neil and his wife that must be very painful for both sets of parents to read. From where does she get her information? Did she have a chance to interview these people to really know what was going on inside their relationship and inside the husband's head? McPhee connects dots to weave a sensationalized tale and presents this as fact.
It is outrageous that she dedicates this book to victims of domestic violence within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. There is nothing to learn about domestic violence from what she has written here. She is out to sell books.
Given that this crime is so recent, the publication of McPhee's book has likely created considerable pain for both sets of parents, half of whom live in the Boston area. I wonder if she checked with the famlies before publishing this book. This book is crass, poorly researched, and not worth reading.
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