I’d been having them for almost two years, during which they had become more and more violent and vivid, and in each I was hunted by an anonymous man with a knife or a gun. It was pitch-dark in the room-not even a sliver of the moon to offer some light. I sat up quickly in bed, gasping, my body soaked with sweat. I counted, and when I opened my eyes, he was gone. The barrel of the gun was hard and cold against my forehead. “Close your eyes and count to four,” he whispered. Prologue: Liza’s Nightmare Prologue LIZA’S NIGHTMARE Now, she and cowriter Jennifer Jordan reveal “a suspenseful portrayal of murderous madness in tandem with a child’s growing loneliness, neglect, and despair, a narrative collision that will haunt” (Sarah Weinman, author of The Real Lolita) you long after you finish it. Haunted by nightmares and horrified by what she learned, Liza became obsessed with the case. Though Tony Costa’s gruesome case made screaming headlines in 1969 and beyond, Liza never made the connection between her friendly babysitter and the infamous killer of numerous women, including four in Massachusetts, until decades later. #THE BABYSITTER CHARACTERS SERIAL#To Liza, he was one of the few kind, understanding, and safe adults in her life.īut there was one thing she didn’t know their babysitter was a serial killer. He bought them popsicles and together, they visited his “secret garden” in the Truro woods. During the summers, while her mother worked days in a local motel and danced most nights in the Provincetown bars, her babysitter-the kind, handsome handyman at the motel where her mother worked-took her and her sister on adventures in his truck. Growing up on Cape Cod in the 1960s, Liza Rodman was a lonely little girl. This chilling true story and “harrowing account of the evil that can lurk around the edges of girlhood” (Carolyn Murnick, author of The Hot One)-reminiscent of Ann Rule’s classic The Stranger Beside Me-follows a little girl longing for love who finds friendship with her charismatic babysitter, unaware that he is a vicious serial killer.
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