Abandoned Prayers: The Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession and Amish Secrets by Gregg Olsen

Abandoned Prayers: The Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession and Amish Secrets

Gregg Olsen

399 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction crime mystery true crime mysterious reflective slow-paced

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On Christmas Eve in 1985, a hunter found a young boy's body along an icy corn field in Nebraska. The residents of Chester, Nebraska buried him as "Little Boy Blue," unclaimed and unidentified-- until a phone call from Ohio two years later led auth...

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dark 87%
sad 62%
informative 50%
tense 43%
emotional 37%
mysterious 31%
challenging 6%

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medium 43%

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