Book Review: Losing Jon

Losing Jon

A Teen's Tragic Death, a Police Cover-Up, a Community's Fight for Justice

by David Parrish

 Kensington Books 

Citadel

 Nonfiction (Adult)  |  True Crime 

Pub Date 28 Apr 2020

I am reviewing a copy of Losing Jon through Kensington Books/Citadel and Netgalley:

When David Parrish discovered that nineteen-year-old Jon Bowie’s body had been found hanged from a backstop at the local high school’s baseball field.  The death was ruled as a suicide, but something was not right.  David had known Jon as well as his twin brother since the boys were kids.  He had coached them them on the baseball field and welcomed them into his home for sleepovers with his own sons.   After David learned how Jon’s body was founded felt the need to find the facts by this incomprehensible tragedy.

It wasn’t long before David learned of a brutal attack at a hotel, where both Jon and his brother were horribly beaten by police officers.  He learned too of the fires charged against the officer and the months of harassment and intimidation Jon and his brother endured.  There were few in the Utopian like community of Columbia, Maryland believed that Jon would commit suicide.  David could not help but wonder how a night of teens blowing off teen could end so tragically.  The officers were unable or unwilling to find answers and seemed to be intent on preventing the truth from surfacing.  In his own research on the case David uncovered a series of cover-up’s could only lead to one conclusion—Jon’s death was an act of murder.

I give Losing Jon five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!