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This book tells a remarkable story - you might think that an author, writing about her brothers murder would embellish the story but Penny’s details of Chris and Peta’s lives are 100% accurate. I know this because they were my friends for about four or five years prior to their deaths. Chris was always cheerful, fun, and willing to jump into any situation to help, Peta was the careful, caring one - quiet but always supportive of Chris. In short they were wonderful people and when I heard that they had vanished - Chris’s parents had contacted my parents - I was worried and then devastated about a year or so later when I heard that their bodies had been found and that all the leads to find their killer were going nowhere. And for about 40 years that was all I knew - I’ve never forgotten them, they have always lived in my memories. Then suddenly I heard that the story had been published and I bought and read this book - reading it has finally solved the mystery of their deaths and I have to thank Penny Farmer for all her efforts - it can’t have been easy to write.

The book demonstrates that “truth is stranger than fiction” - I’m not a fan of true crime stories but this one is fascinating in that it delves into not just solving the crime but the effects that it had on the killer’s children - that was completely unexpected. I’m not going to give away spoilers but every detail of the events just before Chris and Peta’s deaths fits in perfectly with what I knew of them, and while Penny doesn’t jump to any conclusions in the book, it makes me think that my friends changed the lives of their killer’s kids for the better. It’s hard to believe, but most of the events in this story are well documented and it describes the Chris and Peta that I knew - it’s not been easy writing this but they were such wonderful people and my memories of them will always be with me. The book has put a mystery to rest for me.


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This is a book that kept me captivated from beginning to end - I read it in two sittings. The author maintains the momentum of the story well without sacrificing the time needed to get to know the characters involved. You experience an emotional roller coaster that the author herself must have felt over the years that it took for this story to unfold.
A well written story, intriguing and insightful as to what can go wrong (and right) with an international real life "whodunit".
I purchased book after reading the BBC article on this. The story is hard to believe with all the miscues by the authorities, but it's an interesting case.
This is a really good book. It’s hard for me as I too had a son murdered. My son was also murdered in a different country. I really feel for this family. She does a nice job in her descriptions. I can picture the places even though I haven’t been to all of them. It’s a good read. It would be enjoyable even if you couldn’t relate as I can.
Like the author I was a journalist in North London in the mid-80s, though on a rival newspaper. I have only vague memories of Penny, more likely from one of the regular gatherings of the scribes at a local watering hole than from running into her while following up on a hot lead. At the time I knew of nobody in that youthful, close-knit group who had any idea of her family’s gruesome story, one which completely changed their lives forever.
My career went in a different direction when I moved to the western United States, not a million miles from where much of that story is centered. It was one of our mutual former colleagues who, after seeing Penny interviewed on UK television, recommended I read this book. I’m glad he did.
This is the true story of the disappearance of Penny’s older brother, Chris, and his girlfriend Peta Frampton while they were crewing on a small boat in the Caribbean Sea. Their bodies were eventually discovered off the coast of Guatemala. It’s about the pursuit, initially by Penny’s parents, Charles and Audrey, and then by Penny herself, of some sort of closure for two families haunted by the murders of those young people by a cold-blooded manipulative killer, Silas Boston, in full view of his two young sons.
More than that, Penny recounts the complex and ineffective communications between multiple international jurisdictions in the pre-online era, and those two sons’ enduring fear of their father, all such that Boston remained free for nearly 40 years. She also reminds us how technology has since revolutionized communications to allow almost instant global contact, and of the possibilities–and, for Boston, the perils–of social media. In the end, it was through searches on Facebook that Penny was able to revive interest in what was by then very much a cold case.
Having spent many years writing letters and making long distance phone calls in an effort to ensure that justice was served, Charles died before Boston was finally apprehended. “It’s the nature of life that we all die in the middle of a story, indeed many stories,” Penny observes, “but this was my family’s biggest story and my father was robbed of knowing the ending of something he had strived for, for almost four decades.”
Penny’s ultimate magnanimity towards the British and U.S. authorities involved, and towards Boston’s sons, is striking. As she writes, “Chris’ absence was the wreckage that we had come to live with.” One can only imagine–and hope that in continuing to pursue this horrific personal story she has at last achieved some measure of peace for herself and her family.
This book tells a remarkable story - you might think that an author, writing about her brothers murder would embellish the story but Penny’s details of Chris and Peta’s lives are 100% accurate. I know this because they were my friends for about four or five years prior to their deaths. Chris was always cheerful, fun, and willing to jump into any situation to help, Peta was the careful, caring one - quiet but always supportive of Chris. In short they were wonderful people and when I heard that they had vanished - Chris’s parents had contacted my parents - I was worried and then devastated about a year or so later when I heard that their bodies had been found and that all the leads to find their killer were going nowhere. And for about 40 years that was all I knew - I’ve never forgotten them, they have always lived in my memories. Then suddenly I heard that the story had been published and I bought and read this book - reading it has finally solved the mystery of their deaths and I have to thank Penny Farmer for all her efforts - it can’t have been easy to write.

The book demonstrates that “truth is stranger than fiction” - I’m not a fan of true crime stories but this one is fascinating in that it delves into not just solving the crime but the effects that it had on the killer’s children - that was completely unexpected. I’m not going to give away spoilers but every detail of the events just before Chris and Peta’s deaths fits in perfectly with what I knew of them, and while Penny doesn’t jump to any conclusions in the book, it makes me think that my friends changed the lives of their killer’s kids for the better. It’s hard to believe, but most of the events in this story are well documented and it describes the Chris and Peta that I knew - it’s not been easy writing this but they were such wonderful people and my memories of them will always be with me. The book has put a mystery to rest for me.