The Book
Core topics and current thinking
What's Inside
- Origins: How Lynn Shiner and Nancy Chavez transformed the murders of their children into a shared memoir of grief and resilience. The focus stays on the mothers’ witness, not on sensational crime detail.
- Inside the Pages: Selected passages and a careful look at how two bereaved mothers wrote through shock, anger, memory, faith, and the slow work of recovery. Readers who carry similar loss may want to move through excerpts in short sittings.
- Testimonials: Honest reactions from homicide survivors, advocates, support group leaders, and general readers who have engaged with the book’s account. Stakeholder feedback indicates that many readers value the memoir most when it is treated as compassionate testimony, not as a grief formula.
- Lived Meaning: What Stabbed in the Heart has meant to homicide survivors and bereaved parents navigating anniversaries, court memories, family fractures, and the search for language after violent death. Hope appears here as endurance, not as denial.
- Where to Buy: Clear ordering guidance for readers, families, book groups, victim services professionals, and advocates. This section also explains how proceeds connect to victim advocacy and survivor causes, while recognizing that book access is separate from urgent crisis care or legal help.
Stabbed in the Heart belongs with readers who need a steady, human account of murder loss without the glare of entertainment-focused true crime. It can sit beside survivor support groups, advocacy work, and private remembrance, especially for people trying to name what violent grief does to a family.
If you are ordering the book for yourself or someone else, consider timing and support. Some pages may bring comfort; others may reopen pain. Read slowly, pause when needed, and reach toward trusted people or trained survivor services when the weight becomes too much to carry alone.