Who are your favorite authors?

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Who are your favorite authors?
Mine are Stephen King, Dean Koontz, John Saul, Mary Higgins Clark and V.C. Andrews.

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House of Secrets by Lowell CauffielbrbrEddie Lee Sexton is evil incarnate. Like Charles Manson, he exercised a cultlike mind control over others who did his dirty work. But unlike Manson, both Sextons victims and his subjects were his very own flesh and blood.quot As strong as they are, these words from an assistant district attorney barely hint at the depravity hidden for years within the Sexton family. Strange notions about quotFuturetronsquot and hand markings that convey absolute power, revelations of incest and physical abuse, bodies buried in the camping area of a Florida state park House of Secrets has so many layers of weirdness that it will amaze even seasoned readers of true crime. Lowell Cauffiel has a talent for combining quotations from interviews and unembellished facts into prose that reads like a novel. Two people are dead, and the children who suffered the cruel fate of being born into the Sexton family may never completely heal from their injuriesbut at least their story has been told!brbrSeldom in the annals of modern true crime has a father exerted such a depraved influence on his children. Eddie Lee Sextons control was so total that he was actually able to order his kids to commit coldblooded murder. On an October night in , at one of the campgrounds dotting Floridas Gulf Coast, Sexton told his daughter Pixie to silence her crying baby. It seems almost inconceivable, but the young mother obediently smothered her helpless eightmonthold infant son. Two days later, the tiny corpse a rattle in his hand and a pacifier in his mouth was stuffed inside a gym bag and buried in a shallow grave, just a few feet from the familys campsite. Less than a month later, the Sexton patriarch would issue another homicidal command. To stop the dead babys father, Joel Good, from going to the authorities, Eddie Lee ordered son Willie to strangle the bereaved dad during a family picnic. Pixie, so under her fathers thumb that she had already committed infanticide, reportedly helped cover up husband Joels murder. Sexton was priming his third victim when the FBI and Florida cops finally caught up with him. After the ensuing investigation sparked a sixhour standoff with local cops, Sexton took his family on the run. When it was finally over, he and other members of the Sexton clan would be linked with crimes ranging from fraud, arson, extortion, and armed robbery, to conspiracy, child abuse, incest, and murder. By early , Sexton would be sitting on death row, waiting for a date with Floridas electric chair.