The Babysitter

Rising up on Cape Cod within the Sixties, Liza Rodman was a lonely little lady. Through the summers, whereas her mom labored days in an area motel and danced most nights within the Provincetown bars, her babysitter—the type, good-looking handyman on the motel the place her mom labored—took her and her sister on adventures in his truck. He purchased them popsicles and collectively, they visited his “secret backyard” within the Truro woods. To Liza, he was one of many few variety, understanding, and protected adults in her life.

However there was one factor she didn’t know; their babysitter was a serial killer.

Although Tony Costa’s ugly case made screaming headlines in 1969 and past, Liza by no means made the connection between her pleasant babysitter and the notorious killer of quite a few ladies, together with 4 in Massachusetts, till many years later.

Haunted by nightmares and horrified by what she realized, Liza grew to become obsessive about the case. Now, she and cowriter Jennifer Jordan reveal “a suspenseful portrayal of murderous insanity in tandem with a baby’s rising loneliness, neglect, and despair, a story collision that can hang-out” (Sarah Weinman, writer of
The Actual Lolita) you lengthy after you end it.