Book Review: When the Moon Turns Blood Red

 

When the Moon Turns to Blood

Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and a Story of Murder, Wild Faith, and End Times

by Leah Sottile

Pub Date 21 Jun 2022 

 Twelve Books,  Twelve

 True Crime

I am reviewing a copy of When the Moon Turns to Blood through Twelve Books and Netgalley:

WHEN THE MOON TURNS TO BLOOD examines the culture of end times paranoia and a trail of mysterious deaths surrounding former beauty queen Lori Vallow and her husband, grave digger turned doomsday novelist, Chad Daybell.

A wellness check on seven year old J.J and sixteen year old Tylee Ryan in Rexburg Idaho, but the children are nowhere to be found.  Lori Vallow their Mother gives a fake explanation and when officers return the following day with a search warrant, she, too, is gone. As the police begin to close in, a larger web of mystery, murder, fanaticism and deceit begins to unravel.

The Vallow case is sinuously complex. As investigators prod further, they find the accused Black Widow has an unusual number of bodies piling up around her.

WHEN THE MOON TURNS TO BLOOD tells a gripping story of extreme beliefs, snake oil prophets, and explores the question: if it feels like the world is ending, how are people supposed to act?

I give When the Moon Turns To Blood five out of five stars!