"The honest and vulnerable account of a daughter’s 30-year search for answers about her mother’s murder."
“On September 26, 1984, Mary ‘Ginger Murphy’ McLaughlin went out to have fun. That night she met the devil himself and he took her life”. Just three weeks after burying her father Gina McGavin received the horrifying phone call that her mother had been found brutally murdered, taken from her at the moment they had just started to reconnect. Gina and her family would have to wait 30 years to find out who was responsible. My Mother’s Murder sheds light on the torment of not having the answers she desperately wanted.
Within the pages of this book, Gina McGavin opens up about her family history and her relationship with her mother, who left the family home when she was two years old. Her upbringing and strong desire for a closer relationship with her mother makes it even more heartbreaking that Mary was taken from her just as that connection was within reach. Mary McLaughlin’s case would need the advances in forensics that come with time but for 30 years Gina watched and waited, trying to gather all the information she could, with the underlying suspicion that someone in her family knew more than they were saying about her mother’s murder.
My Mother’s Murder is the compelling story of an imperfect life cut short. A story of a desire for human connection: grief for a traditional mother figure, then the hopeless loss of possibility after Mary was cruelly taken and the vigil for long awaited answers. It is ‘true crime’ in every sense of the term, sharing a tragedy in its unpolished and unglamorous form.
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