Richard Michael Levine

Nonfiction

BAD BLOOD

A Family Murder

in Marin County

Bad Blood is a gripping and chilling true story of the breakdown of an American middle-class family.

You will want to talk about it, so read it with someone you love—no farther away than the next room.

– Norman Lear

Superbly reported, totally engrossing – and ultimately horrifying – a tale of alienation and despair. Richard Michael Levine tells a murderous story of Middle America in the '70s, out of the mouths of two young Californians who are simultaneously criminals and victims.

– Mike Wallace

San Francisco Chronicle
"Levine's account of the murder has been compared to In Cold Blood and The Executioner's Song . . . in a way, it's better than both of them."
Los Angeles Times
"Illumines the dark underside of Marin County groovey-freeness . . . the breakdown of the American suburban family . . . the gamut of teen-age acting out: a round robin of drugs, shoplifting, sexual kinkiness that transcended mere promiscuity, pop mysticism, demonology, and total rebellion, a frightening, disturbing book that deserves the widest possible audience."
The Village Voice
"The most deftly-written, engrossing reconstruction of 'true crime' since Capote." - Eliot Fremont-Smith
Los Angeles Herald Examiner
"It is difficult to imagine a much better book . . . this is non-fiction writing at its best."

On the first day of summer in 1975 a suburban Marin County couple named Jim and Naomi Olive were savagely slain. Their killers were the Olives’ 16-year-old daughter and her 20-year-old lover.

This is the story of that shocking murder and the appalling events that led up to it. It is the story of the middle-class dream turned into a nightmare, of parents and children living in mutually alien and hostile worlds, and of a youth culture for which promiscuous sex and every kind of drug are no longer enough.

It is a story that cuts to the bone of American life – and strikes inescapably close to home.

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Richard Michael Levine

Nonfiction

San Francisco Chronicle

Los Angeles Times

The Village Voice

Los Angeles Herald Examiner