Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When the Moon Turns to Blood | 2022 | Leah Sottile | Buy |
| 2 | Blazing Eye Sees All | 2025 | Leah Sottile | Buy |
When the Moon Turns to Blood follows the story of Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell, whose apocalyptic religious beliefs led to the deaths of Vallow’s children and Daybell’s first wife. Sottile approaches the case as a journalist who covers radicalization rather than as a conventional true crime writer, which shifts the focus onto the network of ideas and communities that made the crime possible.
Blazing Eye Sees All, published in 2025, continues Sottile’s examination of extremism and belief in the American West. Her two books form a coherent body of work for readers interested in how fringe movements develop and what they reveal about the broader culture around them.