🎧 Book Review: “My Husband’s Trying to Kill Me”: A True Story of Money, Marriage and Murderous Intent by Jim Schutze

3⭐
Genre ~ true crime
Setting ~ New York, Oklahoma, Texas
Publication date ~ March 19, 2024 for my copy, but originally published in 1992!
Est page Count ~ 394 (8 chapters)
Audio length ~ 9 hours 26 minutes
Narrator ~ Jonathan Sleep
POV ~ multiple 3rd
Featuring ~ long chapters, domestic abuse

My review:

This takes place in the 1970’s and follows Linda’s marriage to Robert, an evil man. He verbally and physically abused her. She worked with the FBI in order to bring him down before he kills her first.

The chapters were so long, I mean there were only 8 for an almost 400 page book, so that made the book feel longer to me. The domestic abuse is on page, which I would expect since this is true crime. It was really hard to listen when her son was on page crying for his mother wondering why she wasn’t answering his call. Heartbreaking all around.

I do feel like I was duped in that I thought this was a newly released book, but turns out it’s a re-release from 32 years ago. I don’t know why, but that really bugs me. I don’t mind books published years ago, but I’d prefer a heads up, but maybe that’s my fault for not doing my research. Overall, I think true crime fans would like this one.

Narration notes:
Jonathan did a good job and I stayed awake the whole time.

*Thanks to the author, Tantor Audio and NetGalley for the audio copy. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*

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Book blurb:

To the world, Linda DeSilva’s marriage to Robert Edelman was perfect. He was her college boyfriend turned wealthy and successful husband, and the father of her children. But what friends and family didn’t know was that the Texas real estate tycoon who set her up with a luxurious life in Dallas was also her abuser. When she asked him for a divorce, the violence against her only escalated, until the shocking moment she learned her husband had hired an assassin to take her life. 

From acclaimed journalist and author Jim Schutze, “My Husband’s Trying to Kill Me!” is the riveting true-crime account of how Linda DeSilva worked with the FBI to trap her husband before he could act on his murderous intentions—and how the sting operation nearly got her killed instead. A shocking and sensational story of a wife and mother’s escape from the marriage that went from American dream to every woman’s worst nightmare.

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