"This time Gregg Olsen has given us a very sexy book that is as disturbing as it is seductive. One reads it compulsively and wonders afterwards 'why did I like this so much?' as if one had not so much read it as had a very destructive affair with it. A dangerous and informative book, as irresistible as its painfully, wonderfully vicious heroine -- or villain, whichever she is. The book might make some moralists more humble."
– Darcy O'Brien,
author of Power to Hurt and Two of a Kind

"Confessions of an American Black Widow is that rare book that is at once a page-turner and an important chronicle of true crime. An enlightening and devastating read."
– Steven A. Egger, Ph.D.,
author of The Killers Among Us: An Examination of Serial Murder

Author's Note

never had the chance to sit down and visit with lovers and murderers Sharon Nelson and Gary Adams. I listened to hours and hours of interviews that another writer had taped, so I can say that I certainly heard their side of the story. What I couldn't fathom, however, was their great attraction for one another.

It was particularly difficult to understand Sharon's appeal. None of the photographs I saw made her look as she had been described by her hordes of admirers. Men who knew her thought she was the hotter than a volcano. Gary Adams considered her a goddess. No pictures revealed that. It finally made sense when I understood where some of her fans were coming from. They were small town folks, ranchers, miners and Sharon was like a sexy movie star. Everything she did oozed sex. Gary Adams was so smitten he was willing to kill two men just to keep this "incredible woman" in his life (and bed).