| |  | Author: Lowell Cauffiel
Publisher: Zebra
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Dimensions (in): 4 x 4 x 1.2
ISBN: 0821742132
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.15230977456
EAN: 9780821742136
ASIN: 0821742132
Publication Date: July 1, 1993
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Keeps the reader in suspense August 4, 2004
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Although it is clear from the start that the two women are responsible for the murders of the nursing home patients, the author does keep back some details until the end. The shifting accounts from witnesses and interviews opens new thinking as the tale unfolds.
I had to really mentally shift gears at the end once all the details were laid out and even then I'm glad I wasn't on the jury.
Some of the incidents cropped up over and over, but I began to realize the different points of views given to each retelling. Sifting out what was real, what was staged, and who was covering for someone makes it a really complex case.
True crime readers will find it worth wading through.
 Who edited this? May 15, 2002
3 out of 12 found this review helpful
I bought this at a used book store for a buck; and that goes to show that you get what you pay for. I, too, went through the book with a red pen and edited the misspellings, fractured usage and ambiguous sentences. The editing disasters were so egregious that it took away from a relatively interesting story. How did this ever get published in the first place?
 if you want cheap superficiality, look elsewhere please November 28, 2001
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I have been a fan of Mr. Cauffiel's books for several years now.
His books are NOT tedious or difficult to read--they are meticulously researched and the subject matter revealed layer by layer to the interested reader. Infused in the narrative of his books is a deep respect for the parties involved and dare I say, some subtle humor as well. For me, this makes for wonderful reading. Fans of superficial, rush-to-market, cheap accounts of lurid crimes and criminals should look elsewhere, not criticize one of the finest true crime writers out there.
Long and detailed, but a worthwhile book. January 1, 2001
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I do agree with other reviewers-a good editor could have made the difference in this book. It was long and detailed in sections, difficult to wade through, but, nonetheless, a worthwhile story. The only part left undone for me was how the nursing home management could allow such employees to behave in the manner as they did on the third shift. Cathy and Gwen were such heartless human beings to have cheated these older people out of what little dignity they had left. It appears that Cathy will always continue her sadistic, manipulative behavior; never sorry for what she has done nor the lives she has selfishily destroyed. Ashamed to admit it, but this is one person I would like to see sitting on death row.
From the Author November 4, 2000
21 out of 22 found this review helpful
In the interest of accuracy to serious readers, I feel it necessary to respond to Roxanne Marcianti's review here. Ms. Marcianti makes a number of charges and assumptions which have no basis in fact. First, not a single sentence of "Forever and Five Days" is "padded" and the book contains not a single passage of "fictionalization." Everything in the work has been meticulously researched and documented with hundreds of hours of taped interviews, court transcripts, police reports and other proven methods of journalistic research. Furthermore, Ms. Marcianti's charge that I did not interview the two perpetrators in this book is simply careless reading on her part. The book's "Author's Note" makes quite clear the sources of all the material in "Forever and Five Days," including stating that the perpetrators were interviewed extensively. Apparently, she didn't bother to read it, or chose to ignore it completely -- which, by the way, makes her "review" libelous in that it maliciously ignores the facts. I would suggest Ms. Marcianti apply the same standards of research and accuracy she expects in my books to her own reviewing skills.
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