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Evidence of Love A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs

John Bloom

The “fascinating” true story behind the HBO Max and Hulu series about Texas housewife Candy Montgomery and the bizarre murder that shocked a community ( Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the Methodist church choir, their daughters were best friends, and thei...

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It was described as a meticulously detailed nonfiction crime book that read like a thriller, even like a movie, and was the basis for two drama series on HBO Max and Hulu.

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So the book that I think that most of these crime drama series is being based off of or being adapted from is a book called Evidence of Love by John Bloom and Jim Atkinson.

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It was described as a meticulously detailed nonfiction crime book that read like a thriller, even like a movie, and was the basis for two drama series on HBO Max and Hulu.

"

So the book that I think that most of these crime drama series is being based off of or being adapted from is a book called Evidence of Love by John Bloom and Jim Atkinson.

There is so much meticulous detail in this book. I can't even, I mean, this is, I love nonfiction crime books that read like a thriller, but this one kind of reads like a movie. Like I pictured everything in my head that as it was happening. I mean, they're really good at what they do.

This is going to go nowhere near as deep as that book. Trust me, pick up that book because there's going to be a lot of shows on this.

So I mean, I'm going to be watching both series. I just like reading the books first if there's like a well-known book that they're adapted from. So the book is almost always better.

Just read the book first because once you watch the show, you don't really want to read the book. But trust me, the experience hits different.

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