She felt she was a "chosen one" to make this horrendous act partially right by helping to find, and eventually convict Scott Peterson. I think that the biblical references were a bit overdone, but I can understand where/why Amber Frey’s mind was working in that respect. There has to be some justification for her being involved, at least in her mind, and the Bible and her faith made her feel that was why that she was a part of the story. She was a sort of sullied and soiled (Magdalena type) avenger of the wronged. Sometimes we are blessed with a small insight as to why we are on this planet, and I think that this seems to be Ms. Frey’s reality, in her mind.

Amber Frey was the infamous lover -the girlfriend of a married Scott Peterson. She had a short run at an affair with this man who lied to her about his status, and she made the mistake of believing his lies. When she found out who he was and what had happened to his wife, (the disappearance, not the murder, at that time) she went forward and contacted the Modesto, CA. Police to see if they would use her to help get the straight story from Peterson. The tapes that were made of the phone calls between Amber and Scott were used in the trial that led to his conviction for the murders. The transcript of some of those tapes is in the book, in their own words. She was fearful for her safety and the safety of her daughter, whom she had let Scott pick up from school upon occasion. She was under great stress and anxiety while trying to keep the pretense that she was unaware of what had really happened to Laci and Conner so the truth could hopefully be brought out.

Ms. Frey was detailed and accurate about the places and things she did during much of the time she was involved with Peterson, and that helped put the story into perspective. I lived in the same towns (Modesto and Fresno, CA.) that Frey and Peterson were in, so am very familiar with the places and Police Departments mentioned in the book and the place that Peterson went to put Laci’s body in the bay near San Francisco. He actually, according to the transcript of the tapes, thought that he would not be caught and that he would just be seen as a man "who lost his wife," as he put it to Amber when she first found out that he was married.

I read this book with great interest and a lot of knowledge about the whole story because it was one I followed closely during the disappearance, the investigation, and the trial, knowing about the towns and the people where the story unfolded. I went to school with one of the police officers who was one of the lead investigators. The reading of this book was natural to me, and Ms. Frey did not disappoint with stories or lies to make herself seem more vulnerable to the smooth-talking of Scott Peterson. I have been, in my own past, exactly where she was in her mindset, so I could sense how she felt and was able to follow what she wanted from that relationship. Many women have. She freely admits to having made mistakes in her life choices and decisions. She was compelled to write her part of the story so others could have an open vision into the mind of the Peterson-types of the world and be aware of some of the consequences that come from other actions that seem totally singular and out of context with the open actions that one gives out in the search for a "true love".

Witness for the Prosecution of Scott Peterson was a relatively good read, and I commend Ms. Frey for taking the chances, doing the right thing, and waiting to tell her side of this complicit relationship with Peterson until after the trial was over and the verdict was put down in the court record. She will grow and become a better, more knowing person for her involvement, and hopefully, her life will be easier for having told her side to the public in the manner and time that she chose to do it. I am sure that Laci’s family rests easier now, knowing that Peterson is not going to ever be freed from prison. And much of that ability to rest free in their hearts came from Ms. Frey not telling all before the trial, so that the truth could be shown there instead of in the tabloids and on the TV screen prior to the jury seeing and hearing it first.

Overall, a good book to read. If a person wants to look into the mind of a killer and see how a sociopath works with things like the lives of those close to them and the thought processes in that kind of a mind, you might just want to read this book. Having known as much as I already did about the whole story, there was not much that was new to me, but I did grow to understand more about their relationship and why she felt compelled to help the police and then to write the book.