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Her Alibi
Visions of her Cherokee grandmother, Cordie, flashed through Mary's mind as her mother, Marguerite, informed her that her stepfather shot himself and was in the hospital. Oh no!
No! This can't be! Not after the joking around at my home last night. NO!!!! Did she use me last night? She'd never use her scapegoat child. No, she couldn't! Even Marguerite wouldn't sink that low! Or would she? Marguerite had always been abusive and vile to most people, and especially to her children and husbands, but would she shoot Harold?
Yet, here I was, and I had to tell the police that, yes, my mother was at my home all evening and into the night. How despicable that my mother connived her way into using me as her alibi.
This book is a true memoir drawing upon the locals and inspiration of the areas in which the author lives and works. Names of towns, places, facilities, and people are real except for three men. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is not coincidental in nature and places where events take place are from her life growing up.
Amazon Number One Bestseller - 2022
Literary Titan - Gold - 2022
SoCal Book Awards - Honorable Mention - 2022
Reader's Choice Book Awards - Finalist 2023
London Book Awards - Honorable Mention 2023
Los Angeles Book Awards - Honorable Mention 2023
NABE - Gold - Best Book in the Category of True Crime Fall 2023
Author Shout Reader Ready Award Winner - Recommended Reads 2024
Silver Medalist in Non-Fiction/True Crime Readers Favorite 2024
IAN Book of the Year Awards Finalist Family Relationships 2024
Author Shout Reader Ready Award Winner - Recommended Reads 2024
Life Experiences/Memoirs Winner International Impact Awards 2024
Book Details
- Publisher: M. Schmidt Productions
- Publish Date: Aug 31st, 2022
- Pages: 74
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.15in - 0.24lb
- EAN: 9798218052546
- Categories: • Forensics• Memoirs• Abuse - Child Abuse
Praise for this book
Reviewed by Astrid Iustulin for Readers' Favorite
Stories of abuse and domestic violence always shock you when you read them. This happens to anyone who reads Mary L. Schmidt's book, Her Alibi. Here, the author tells the story of her family, focusing in particular on the abuses of her mother, Marguerite, who had always treated her as a scapegoat. After divorcing her husband, Marguerite marries Harold (she will marry him three times, to be exact) and is most likely responsible for his death. Is it possible she used her daughter as an alibi? And how will relations between Marguerite and her children develop? Her Alibi tells a disturbing story of an abusive mother and the consequences her mental condition and behavior have on her family and children, especially the daughter she treats as a scapegoat.
Mary L. Schmidt tells us this story in a way that clearly depicts the world of abuse that characterized her childhood and gives the reader a precise understanding of what she and her siblings went through. Marguerite is represented in such a way that her personality deeply impresses the reader, especially considering what she may have done to Harold and her daughter, the alibi. I appreciated that Schmidt included many photos of her family because this makes you know the people she describes and makes you even more sympathetic to what they have experienced. Her Alibi is not a book for the faint of heart, and I recommend it to readers who have the courage to read it, to match the courage the author had in writing it.