This is worth your monthly credit.

Even if you’ve consumed endless news specials, documentaries or podcasts about Susan Cox and her children, I still recommend this book. I learned so much information that I either never knew or just weren’t widely reported. I appreciate these authors being much more critical of the agencies in this case. Date and 20/20 never once mention how incompetent law enforcement and CPS were, opting to just pile on the 91i dispatcher like everyone else.

The only thing making this overall product a 4 instead of a 5 is just me being nit-picky about some of the problematic language and phrasing the authors use. To be fair, this is something that plagues virtually all true crime reporting, and this book does nothing particularly egregious on that front. Just stuff like constantly mentioning Alina’s weight, saying “she was bad at picking men” instead of “a violent man abused her.”