The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty by Valerie BauerleinMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I highly recommend this book even if you've already seen documentaries about the Murdaugh family. This is the best book out there on this story. There's so much information on this family and the tragedies surrounding them. The writing was so good and it flowed very well.
There were a few quotes that stuck out to me:
"Alex had his secrets. So did his forefathers. Alex’s father, grandfather, and great-grandfather could make secrets disappear, and they had taught Alex to embrace the family ethos: To live above the law, you must become the law."
"For more than a century, the Murdaughs had practiced the art of putting a polished sheen over the mess of reality.
"Waters pressed Alex on the magnitude of his success and influence. There was an absurdity to Alex's disputing something so plainly true, as if he were so accustomed to swimming in the water of privilege, he forgot it was water at all."
"A dominant impression, shared by many, was that Moselle felt like a place where the barrier between the living and the dead was very thin."
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