Liza Rodman experienced a lonely childhood growing up on Cape Cod in the 1960s. To her, her mother's handyman, "the kind, handsome handyman at the motel" was one of the only kind and safe adults in her life. He used to take she and her sister on outings in his truck, buying them popsicles and showing them his secret garden in Truro woods. What Liza didn't know was that her kind, understanding babysitter was a serial killer. Tony Costa's case shook the headlines in 1969, but it was decades later that Liza connected her friendly babysitter to the notorious killer. Weaving nightmares and her shock into the pages, Liza and Jennifer Jordan's The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer will leave you haunted and heartbroken.

Atria Books,  New York, 2021

ISBN: 9781982129477