Hundreds of people lined up around the block of Coeur d’Alene’s Well Read Moose, books in hand, for their turn to meet Shasta Groene McClain and Gregg Olsen Friday evening.

Groene McClain and Olsen were in town for a signing of Olsen’s new book, “Out of the Woods,” featuring the life of Groene McClain before, during and after the abduction of her and her brother Dylan by her family’s murderer, serial killer Joseph Edward Duncan III.

Donna Staub, a bookseller at the Well Read Moose, said that the turnout “exceeded our wildest expectations.”

“The number of people who’ve been out here are just – they’re so happy with the support the Coeur d’Alene community’s showing and just turning out,” she said. “I’m just in awe of her ability to survive and basically just surmount everything she surmou

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