A sensational eye-opener; this frank memoir released in April 2019, lays bare the anguish and the joys of  a young woman, divorced with three children, struggling to find a place in Boston’s repressive culture of the 1950s. She lands in the middle of Berkeley, California’s war protest and environmental movements of the 1960s and 1970s and adds her own budding feminism to the simmering pot of social change.

ISBN : 978-1-64438-447-3 

Trade paperback, 379 pages:   18.95

E-book: ePub, MOBI or PDF format:   4.99 

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In the LA Weekly’s list of “Ten Best Los Angeles Crime Books,” Childhood Shadows: The Hidden Story of the Black Dahlia Murder was given the high  rank of "Number  2".

     Tony Mostrom, LA Weekly, April 9, 2018

"Journalistic integrity ... fascinating to the end ... the best thing I've read on the case ... this is also the only book which gives an objective view of all the current likely suspects -- and ends with a case that will knock your socks off."   

     Dan Jackson, Black Dahlia Documentary Producer, History Channel

“With a touching and sensitive hand, Mary Pacios paints an intimate portrait … a compelling view into the other side of a legendary true crime, that of the victim … written by a woman who knew the victim from her childhood … and tells the world that the Black Dahlia is not simply another sordid tale for the Hollywood Babylon files, but a real, live, human person.”
    Rusty Fisher, Mysterybooks.about.com 

ISBN: 1-5850-0484-7

Trade paperback, 409 pages:    20.95

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