Blood in the Snow
The True Story of a Stay-at-Home Dad, His High-Powered Wife, and the Jealousy That Drove Him to Murder
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Narrated by:
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Paul Michael Garcia
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Written by:
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Tom Henderson
About this listen
In Washington Township, Michigan, on Valentine's Day, 2007, Stephen Grant filed a missing persons report on his beloved wife, Tara. The stay-at-home father of two was beside himself with despair. Why would Tara abandon him and their family? Was she involved with another man?
Stephen's frantic, emotional search for Tara made national headlines, and the case was featured on Dateline among other television shows and news outlets. But key elements in Stephen's story still weren't adding up: Why did he wait five days to go to police? What was the nature of his relationship with his children's beautiful, 19-year-old babysitter? Why did Stephen have cuts on his hands, and random bruises? Then, the police made a gruesome discovery.
Parts of Tara Grant's body started turning up around the woods near their home. The truth was finally coming to light...and, after a two-day manhunt, Stephen admitted to having killed Tara―first strangling her, then cutting her body into 14 pieces before burying them. This is the shocking true story about a bitter, cheating husband whose crimes were revealed by the Blood in the Snow.
©2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc. (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.What listeners say about Blood in the Snow
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-09-28
Best true crime book in years
I am a lover of true crime books. Being a retired police officer, in both patrol and detective work, I guess it never leaves you. It was well paced, heart wrenching, and at the same time, sarcastic and entertaining. This is the first book by this author I have read (listened to)and it will not be the last. A good book can be ruined by a poor narrator, this was not the case here. Narration was excellent.
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- Lisa R
- 2023-07-13
Interesting Story
I usually listen to around 6 hour stories, something I can finish during my 8 hrs day at work, but I took a chance on this one at 11+. There definitely was some repetition of facts that wasn't needed. The were some unanswered questions, for example, did they test that stain they noticed? Or where the au pair mentioned she saw him cleaning? Regardless, had no trouble getting to the end of it. The narrator was excellent, the story very interesting.
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- Raina Mermaid
- 2021-07-22
Wild Ride
This was a well paced re-telling of the events and wow what a wild ride it was. So glad he was caught
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- Amazon Customer
- 2022-05-17
Captivating
I enjoyed this book . It just amazes me what one human can do to another.
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- habsgirl
- 2022-10-25
Grrrr editing
At each edit point you lose the first letter. She becomes he etc….it’s confusing. Otherwise great!
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- J-Amazon Canadian Prime Customer
- 2018-02-15
Difficult to reach the end...not very captivating.
I have read and actively studied true crime for upward of 30 years. I found this story itself to drag on. Strangely, it just didn't deliver the suspense that many writers can. It was just "okay". Not entirely intrigued by the narrator either In my experience, he was just not properly suited to the reading of a crime story. Quite FLAT all around.
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- Eric Nagler
- 2022-08-01
Over-written
It's a true story so the plot is determined. We know at the beginning who the villain is. And it seemed to me that to fill out the book, the writer focused on irrelevant details of peoples' backgrounds. And there were whole chapters devoted to the innocence and value of the faultless victim. I did finish it so I give it a 'pretty good'.
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- Langer MD
- 2024-06-08
Look At The Husband First
This case illustrates why Missing Persons reports are always - ALWAYS - accompanied by the need for investigators to rule out spouses/boyfriends/girlfriends as a first step before going full-bore into finding the absent. True Crime mainstay Tom Henderson does a marvelous job exploring the murder that SAHD Stephen Grant perpetrated on his breadwinner wife - while he repeatedly appeared on Television with disingenuous pleas to "Find Her! Bring Her Home!"
Incongruous statements, allegations of infidelity, evidentiary findings that "don't quite fit".. this case illustrates the value of having intuitive police officials pursuing the truth.
Henderson is fairly longwinded - an aggressive Editor could have cut 4 hours from this audiobook without disrupting it - but his temporally linear narrative documents and leads readers/listeners through the case beautifully.
As to presentation: The "average" reading by Paul Michael Garcia doesn't hurt the book, but Blackstone Audio Inc. could certainly have cast this project better.
Don't get me wrong.. Garcia is an excellent reader (the audiobook is a satisfying listen) - he just didn't blow me away. Any other professional reader could have been equally effective.
In toto, I very much enjoyed this reasonably straightforward illustrative exposé about a killer spouse. I rate 'Blood In The Snow' worthy of 9 stars out of 10. I feel fortunate to have gotten it as a 'Plus' selection.. because it would be worth a Credit for genre fans should Audible ask for one.
[Note: Henderson's intermittent "amusing" quips & commentary during the description of horrific events (e.g. dismembering a body) admirably lighten the mood somewhat.. but get to be inappropriate, intrusive, and annoying when they're overdone]
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