Books by Ann Rule and Complete Book Reviews

Ann Rule, Author Pocket Books $7.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-671-79355-5
From the premier writer of true crime comes A Fever in the Heart and Other True Cases, the third volume in Ann Rule's Crime Files series. Here, she collects four cases that ""subconsciously or inadvertently... share a common theme: personal betrayal.
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Ann Rule, Author Simon & Schuster $25 (480p) ISBN 978-0-684-81048-5
Most people like to think they recognize evil when they see it. But as this gripping story of a 1996 Delaware murder makes clear, most people are wrong. Much more than the profile of a handsome, insidious killer and the young woman he murdered, true-
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Ann Rule, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (432p) ISBN 978-0-684-80205-3
Brad Cunningham was handsome, brilliant, a high-school hero in his native Seattle, a football star at the University of Washington. His family background was unusual, with a Native American mother of whom he was ashamed and an Anglo father who was...
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Ann Rule, Author Simon & Schuster $22.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-68835-6
Rule, who scored a great success with Small Sacrifices , has triumphed again with this story of a millionaire computer expert seen as archetypal sociopath. In 1985 Southern Californian David Brown arranged, with the connivance of his 17-year-old...
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Ann Rule, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (487p) ISBN 978-0-453-00540-1
This searching analysis of the shooting of three children in Oregon by their mother devolves into a study of personality. In May of 1983, Diane Downs drove to a Williamette Valley hospital emergency room with her children, all gravely wounded; one...
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Ann Rule, Author Free Press $26 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7432-0298-5
Former Seattle police officer and crime author Rule (Small Sacrifices; Dead by Sunset, etc.) knows a good drama when she finds one: it involves love, betrayal, greed and violence. In the story of Liysa Northon, a woman who murdered her third husband,
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Ann Rule, Author Pocket Books $7.99 (464p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4160-8
Bestseller Rule looks at marriages gone bad in her latest volume of true-crime case files. Stories include ""The Minister's Wife,"" about a woman convicted of shooting her husband in 2006, and ""The Painter's Wife,"" an amazing tale of two strangers
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Ann Rule, Author Pocket Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-671-52788-4
A camping trip in the Cascade mountains goes fatally awry. (Aug.)
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Ann Rule, Author . Free Press $25 (464p) ISBN 978-0-7432-0296-1
The latest from respected true crime veteran Rule (And Never Let Her Go, etc.) walks readers through the tortured life and ugly murder of Sheila Bellush, a woman relentlessly pursued by her sexually obsessed ex-husband, Allen Van Houte. The crime...
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Ann Rule, Author Pocket Books $7.99 (544p) ISBN 978-0-671-00113-1
True crime writer Rule's latest, about a successful and charismatic banker accused of murdering his estranged wife. (Apr.)
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Ann Rule, Author Pocket Books $7.99 (528p) ISBN 978-0-671-79353-1
The centerpiece of this chilling collection is the history of Randy Roth, a ``modern-day Bluebeard'' who specialized in marrying women and then killing them for insurance and Social Security benefits. Rule ( Everything She Ever Wanted ) traces Roth's
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Ann Rule, Author . Pocket Star $7.99 (411p) ISBN 978-0-7434-4875-8
Prolific and talented true crime author Rule proves her warranted reputation as one of the genre's leading lights with the 11th entry in her Crime Files series. Two-thirds of the book is devoted to one case, the disappearance of an elderly sea...
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Ann Rule, Author . Pocket Star $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-671-69139-4
Rule's true-crime books are cautionary tales, police procedurals, character studies and guilty pleasures. This ninth installment in her Crime Files series features a haunting collection of 10 cases, most of which took place in Washington and...
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Ann Rule, Author . Free Press $26 (448p) ISBN 978-0-7432-3851-9
Following the winter 2003 sentencing of the Green River serial killer, Gary Ridgeway, perennial true-crime bestseller Rule (Heart Full of Lies , etc.) has finally completed her long-awaited definitive narrative of the brutal and senseless crimes...
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Ann Rule, Author , read by Blair Brown. Simon & Schuster Audio $26 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-0824-7
As in her previous true-crime accounts, Rule presents the facts of a murder case with all the intrigue, suspense and characterization of an accomplished novelist. Listeners learn how young Sheila Bellush met and married charismatic Allen Blackthorne,
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Ann Rule, Author, Julie Rubenstein, Editor Pocket Books $7.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-671-79354-8
Rule (Everything She Ever Wanted) upholds her title as maven of the murder tale in this riveting second volume in her anthology series. Like A Rose for Her Grave, this collection consists of one book-length treatment and five shorter case histories...
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Ann Rule, Author, Julie Rubenstein, Editor Pocket Books $7.99 (608p) ISBN 978-0-671-76920-8
Rule expertly portrays a millionaire computer genius who masterminded the murder of his wife by his 14-year-old daughter, and later, from his prison cell, unsuccessfully plotted three more killings. More than 100,000 hardcovers were sold of this...
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