Not Lost Forever is 2009′s Number 1 MUST READ
Review by Kim Cantrell
I’m not even sure where to begin this review. It’s difficult. Even as a seasoned true crime reader, my passion for this case is deeply etched; making it extremely difficult to write.
Not Lost Forever , written by the daughter and surviving victim of mass murderer Ramón Salcido and co-authored with true crime writer Steve Jackson, has elicited more primal emotions from me than any other true crime book that I can recall.
It isn’t only a book for true crime fans. While it may recount the unthinkable crimes of a man against those he claimed to love the most, it is a story of survival, bravery, and hope.
Carmina Salcido is an inspiration to anyone who thinks life has handed them more than they can handle.
In most of the books I’ve read, the victims may have suffered addictions, abuse, and other atrocities of life, but I cannot recall a single victim whose entire life seemed to be nothing but a series of tragedies.
Especially not one who refuses to continue to be a victim and possesses such strength and composure.
Well written, easy-to-follow reading told from a first person point of view – and ingeniously peppered with narrative from award-winning author Steve Jackson – Not Lost Forever is, hands down, the book to read for 2009, whether it be for the true crime aspect or the inspiration it will bring to your own life.
From the book cover: On April 14, 1989, for reasons still debated today, Mexican immigrant Ramón Salcido went on a violent rampage in the idyllic Sonoma Valley wine country where he lived and worked. In the course of just two hours, he killed his wife, Angela, her two younger sisters, his mother-in-law, and the man with whom he suspected Angela was having an affair. He then slashed the throats of his three young daughters- four-year-old Sofia, three-year-old Carmina, and twenty-two-month old Teresa – leaving them for dead in the county dump. [Read more....]
