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(More customer reviews)I went to junior high school with Fred Tokars and to senior high school with Sara Ambrusko in Amherst, NY. I knew Fred slightly better however it was only an occasional conversation usually about music. He hung out with a different crowd of friends than I. I do however, remember him as a bit arrogant and somewhat of a "know it all" who would talk to you when he needed information about something. At other times he could walk right by you like he didn't know you. So, the personality traits were already in motion. Sara, on the other hand, was very kind and had a very sweet personality. Somehow I could not really see them together. I guess that Fred did a good job of "putting on a different face" when they dated. After I read about what had happened I was in shock. However, when I started to think about it and especially after I read the book, I could definately see how it happened. I did not know Fred's mother Phyllis but get the impression that she felt her son could do no wrong and maybe that was the start of Fred's problems. It is so hard to understand how someone could be so cold hearted and such a manipulator. I don't know what caused the rift between he and his older sister. I found the book to be well written however it did drag on in some places. It was hard to keep up with the cast of characters and I found myself always looking back to see who was who. I hope that the boys are doing well and that one of Sara's sisters has them. I heard that Sara's father passed away a couple of years ago and I always felt so badly for what the Ambrusko family was put through. I believe that life in prison for Fred is much harder for him to take than the death penalty would have been. I am sure he is still convinced in his mind that he did nothing wrong. It is a very sad story.
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She Was The Perfect Wife and Mother
Pretty, blonde former cheerleader Sara Tokars seemed to have it all: six sisters who considered her the center of their loving family; a home in an affluent Atlanta suburb; an ambitious husband who was a lawyer and part-time judge and well-connected politically; two beautiful sons who adored her.
She Wouldn't Be the Perfect Victim
But Sara's life was built on an illusion. For Fred Tokars was an adulterer and a neglectful father whose real business was turning illegal drug fortunes into-all American dollars using star-studded Atlanta nightclubs and off-shore accounts. No one but Sara knew the ugly truth. But before she could expose him, Fred had Sara gruesomely murdered. Fred thought it would be the prefect crime. But Sara had taken precautions. She'd already made sure all of Fred's secrets would follow him like an avenging angel.
Secrets Never Lie is the story of one woman's struggle to escape her husbands malice; of her sisters' persistent cries for justice; of a city's well-hidden but no less seamy underbelly; of a lawyer whose lifetime of lies and cruelty finally catch up to him. Stretching from that fateful day Sara first came under Fred Tokars' spell to the titanic courtroom battle among the legal giants of the South over whether justice would be served and whether Fred would live or be condemned to die, Secrets Never Lie is the heart-stopping true story of the case that kept Atlanta riveted for years and that will keep every reader mesmerized until the last page turns.
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