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About the Book

If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood

#1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen’s shocking and empowering true-crime story of three sisters determined to survive their mother’s house of horrors.

After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle’s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now.

For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined. Even as others were drawn into their mother’s dark and perverse web, the sisters found the strength and courage to escape an escalating nightmare that culminated in multiple murders.

Harrowing and heartrending, IF YOU TELL is a survivor’s story of absolute evil --- and the freedom and justice that Nikki, Sami and Tori risked their lives to fight for. Sisters forever, victims no more, they found a light in the darkness that made them the resilient women they are today --- loving, loved and moving on.

Audiobook available, read by Karen Peakes

If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
by Gregg Olsen

  • Publication Date: December 1, 2019
  • Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime
  • Hardcover: 405 pages
  • Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
  • ISBN-10: 1542005221
  • ISBN-13: 9781542005227