A Deadly Silence by Dena Kleiman | The Ordeal of Cheryl Pierson
The Piersons. They were the family next door - picture-book American, close, loving, prosperous, observing conventions, upholding decent values. Then the father, James Pierson, was shot dead in the driveway of his suburban Long Island home, and the truth began to come out. The first horror was that his sweet high school cheerleader daughter Cheryl had hired the killer. The next was why she did it...
