Title: Difficult Read Pays Off for McMartin Buffs
Product review: This book consists mostly of extremely lengthy excerpts from trial testimony as recorded by the husband and wife authors, who attended the McMartin trials.The book does not follow the standard true crime formula and takes some diligence to read. There are hardly any breaks in the text or chapters in the trafitional sense, so stopping in a convenient place can be difficult.The authors do a good job in showing how the overzealousness of the L.A. County D.A's office lead to the abuses suffered by the defendant's in the McMartin case.However, at times the authors go off on what seem like paranoid tangents as they rail against what they perceive as the ritual child abuse industry.If you saw the HBO movie about this case, the book is an interesting companion and goes into more detail.
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