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Aftermath: In the Wake of Murder

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This book is excellent as a resource for anyone wanting to understand murder bereavement as a professional or a friend. As someone who has lost a loved one to murder, I find this book invaluable. It helps me understand myself, and understand how this massive trauma pervades every aspect of life, throughout life. This book breaks things down and the chapter headings help you to use it as a reference to read something validating depending how you are feeling, or what you are experiencing (such as going to a trial).
In our group for homicide survivors, this is a book people want to hang onto and use as a reference.

Until I read Carrie Freitag's book, Aftermath: In the Wake of Murder, I knew little about the ultra-traumatic loss grievers of homicide face. Carrie's work, co-authored by Margaret Kerouac, has given me a newfound awareness of, and appreciation for, survivors of murder--and the unique situations and issues they face grieving their loved ones. Aftermath guides its readers through murder's challenging emotional, legal, and judicial waters by offering life rafts that work--whether or not the survivors achieve the ultimate verdict they seek.

I highly recommend this down-to-earth and personally informative book to grievers of homicide, their compassionate comforters, and the public at large.

Christy Lowry
Anchorage, AK

My mom was murdered by my biological father in 1991, and I met Carrie and Peggy, the authors of this book, through Parents of Murdered Children and Other Survivors of Homicide Victims. Carrie and Peggy are wonderful people and Carrie truly understands what we are going through, as she is going through the same.

This book validates our feelings as well as helps us cope with the "new life" we are driven into after a loved one's murder. I encourage every survivor to read this book as well as anyone who knows a murder victim survivor. Although the book is written for survivors, it will help others understand what we are going through.

Thank you, Carrie and Peggy!

I just lost my brother to a brutal and senseless murder, It really helped reading this book. Through my tears I understood that I was not alone in this quite different journey of grief. I lost both my parents years ago and as you might guess though the grief is as intense, there is a significant difference in the process, to include a murder trial. It's a great read for anyone who is going through a horrific loss.