House of Secrets

from minpin3G

This book is very disturbing. To think something like this could go on is very upsetting to me. The book itself was very factual in the telling of the story, although there were quite a few typos in it. At the end it seemed to drag on where a simple this is where he is now would have sufficed, ra...

from dickmanikowski

Fascinating tale of an incredibly horrific family in which the father achieves total domination over his wife and children. The story grows increasingly dark as an incredible web of incest is revealed, as is the complicity of the mother. Reasonably well written, but the copy editing is pretty slo...

from Rob.Larson

If you think your family was dysfunctional, read about this one! Not for the faint of heart.

from briannad84

This book didn't scare me as much as it disturbed me. I think the only taboos I didn't read about was necrophilia and beastiality....Nothing was off-limits to these people! Great book but I think the author could have picked a better title than House of Secrets.

from silenceiseverything

House of Secrets is probably the most twisted true crime book I've ever read. It's just such a sad case. It's even sadder when you realize that the social workers, police officers, and lawyers had tons of chances to do right by these children and by Joel Sexton, yet ultimately intervened a little...