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Product Info # 1 Amazon Bestseller, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Washington Post. Several years ago, true-crime writer Gregg Olsen was approached by the three Notek sisters to tell the heartbreaking story of their sadistic mother. Throughout their lives, they were silent about their terrible childhood: about the scenes of bullying, torture and murder, which they happened not only to see in their parents’ house, but also to go through themselves. The sisters decided to tell the public the truth: they are afraid that their mother, upon leaving prison, will start killing again … How to live with the fact that your own mother is a calculating psychopath who likes to torture her household members, sometimes bringing them to painful death? How does it feel to keep a secret for years that you can’t tell anyone? And how — not to get embittered, not to go crazy and keep the ability to love and the desire to live on? Tell No One is a psychological thriller saga about the power of the human spirit and the power of sisterly love in the face of unimaginable horror, fear and despair. “The crimes committed in the family behind closed doors are terrible and inexplicable. Sometimes victims do not even think that they can and should seek help. This story, which has been unfolding over decades, is full of pain, humiliation and atrocities. It is time for society to think about and start solving the problems of domestic violence. And talk about it as often as possible. » — Irina Shikhman, journalist, author of the project «And Talk?» — People Magazine “Only one writer can write such a horrifying story of hushed violence, torture and grisly serial murders with such grace, sensitivity and skill … A gripping psychological thriller. Instant classics in their genre. » —William Phelps, Amazon Book Review Abstract For many years now, sisters Sami, Nikki, and Tory Knotek flinch when they hear the word «mom» — it reminds them of the horrors of the past and their own unhappy childhood. For almost twenty years, they not only lived in fear of outbreaks of violence from their mother, but also witnessed such terrible scenes that it is impossible to forget. For years behind the high fence of the house, their mother, Michelle «Shelley» Knottek, humiliated them, beat them and turned them against each other every day. Despite all the experience, the girls not only did not break, but strengthened the bonds of sisterly love. And even when victims of their mother began to appear in the house, whom Shelley systematically brought to a painful death, and her daughters were forced to watch terrible scenes of torture, they did not go crazy and did not resign themselves. And they only strengthened their determination to escape from the parental home someday and tell their story to people so that their mother would be punished …
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