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Rule, Ann Bitter Harvest: A Woman's Fury, A Mother's Sacrifice
New York: Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster 3-Feb-98 684810476 N Hardcover
Amazon.com&newline;Fans of Ann Rule will find much to relish in Bitter Harvest, the tale of a brilliant Kansas physician who holds herself together well enough to put on a decent show for the outside world, but in the heart of her horror-struck family is a violent and baffling monster. She drinks, abuses drugs, spews invective, and even lights fires. At one point she learns from an Agatha Christie novel about a potent toxin contained in castor beans, and she starts poisoning her long-suffering husband. Yet until the final fire that consumes two of her children, they continue to love her and defend her to attackers. Rule tells the story with flair, conveying all of the heady feelings involved, but still the book has a flaw: Rule fails to understand the main character. When a psychiatrist testifies that the doctor is at a younger age than a toddler in her ability to process or sustain emotions, Rule writes, &doublequote;That was a shocker. Could a woman with an IQ of 165 and a biting, facetious wit, a woman who had zipped through college and medical school, be a child emotionally?&doublequote;Yes, she could. Bitter Harvest would've been a stronger book if Rule had shown us how. &newline;&newline;From Library Journal&newline;Dr. Deborah Green was a brilliant, wealthy, married mother of three who was convicted of repeatedly trying to poison her husband and of killing two of her children in a fire she methodically set in the family home. Rule (A Fever in the Heart, LJ 11/1/96) proves once again that she is a master of the true-crime genre?she builds the narrative from Green's days as a student of superior intelligence through her years in an increasingly unhappy marriage to her physician husband. Rule carefully chronicles Green's bizarre behavior and takes the reader through the arson investigation as well as Green's husband's illnesses, surgeries, and attempt to rebuild his life with his remaining child, who escaped the fire. Peppered throughout the narrative are quotes from Green herself, which expose her twisted thinking and her attempts to rationalize her behavior. An outstanding chronicle of a crime investigation as well as a riveting profile of a brilliant mind and empty soul.&newline;-?Christine A. Moesch, Buffalo & Erie County P.L., N.Y.&newline;Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Rule, Ann Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer--America's Deadliest Serial Murderer
New York Free Press 28-Sep-04 743238516 N Hardcover
Amazon.com&newline;Veteran crime writer Ann Rule is uniquely qualified to chronicle the grisly career of Gary Ridgeway, the man convicted of being the &doublequote;Green River Killer,&doublequote; the most prolific serial killer in American history. Not only is she one of the more successful true-crime authors, but for nearly 20 years, Rule was exceptionally close to the case, reporting on it for a Seattle newspaper, preparing a long-delayed book on the subject, and living within a few blocks of the strip of highway where most of Ridgeway's victims were abducted. In Green River, Running Red, Rule lends unique humanity to the string of murders that haunted the Seattle area throughout the '80s and '90s by exploring the lives of the dozens of young women who fell into prostitution and were ultimately murdered. Similarly, she catalogues Ridgeway's troubled and bizarre life in such a way that the reader becomes uncomfortably familiar with Ridgeway, although it's never truly clear what drove him to commit such heinous crimes. Along the way, she traces the decades-long struggle of the law enforcement officials assigned to the case as they tracked down countless leads, questioned innumerable suspects, and explored multiple theories that came up empty before finally cracking the case through a series of technological advancements and a little luck. But the most disturbing aspect of the Green River killings (named for where the first victims were found) is how they occurred in relatively plain sight, with Ridgeway, seemingly living an unremarkable life, dwelling and working within a few miles of where his lengthy killing spree took place and evading capture for years. Rule skillfully weaves herself into her account, relating the psychic and cultural impact of the case as it evolved, but she never takes the spotlight off Ridgeway, his eventual captors, and the women who died at his hands.--John Moe &newline;&newline;From AudioFile&newline;In Seattle, from 1982 until 2001, the Green River Killer carried out his hideous obsession, eventually murdering 48 young women before his capture. Abridged true crime cuts to the heart of a piece, avoiding overly technical jargon and repetition. In this abridgment, author and ex-policewoman Ann Rule offers unsentimental examinations of the lives of each of the murdered women. Rule humanizes them, making Gary Ridgeway's mindless brutality seem even more toxic. Ridgeway was everyone's nightmare--the quiet next-door neighbor with a baseball cap, a pickup truck, and a penchant for murder. Narrator Michele Pawk reads with the detachment necessary to tell so grisly a tale. She handles the women's stories, the murder scenes, Ridgeway's sexual sadism, and his marriages coolly, with appropriate distance, allowing the listener to color the highly emotional content. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Rule, Ann Heart Full of Lies: A True Story of Desire and Death
New York Free Press 14-Oct-03 743202988 N Hardcover
From Publishers Weekly&newline;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, Chris Northon, in order to collect his insurance money, Rule has found a real-life soap opera. In the fall of 2000, Liysa convinced Chris to go on a camping trip with her and their small son in the remote forests of Oregon. But the idyllic vacation didn't last long; Liysa would later admit to ending her husband's life by shooting him in the head in an act of &doublequote;self-defense.&doublequote; From where she sits today (in an Oregon state prison), she still professes to have shot Chris only in innocence and fear-emotions she said were caused by her years as a victim of domestic violence. But according to her husband's parents and other sources, Liysa is a manipulative sociopath who spent years crafting a public façade of abuse persuasive enough to justify the cold-blooded murder of her husband. Rule has done an impressive amount of research to reconstruct the history of Liysa's crime and the stories of the main people involved, interviewing dozens of police officers, investigators and private citizens across the country. And if the author's prose is somewhat flat, the fascinating and perplexing drama should be more than enough to keep most readers turning pages. &newline;Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. &newline;&newline;From AudioFile&newline;Lisa and Chris Northon go on a camping trip. Later that night, Lisa rushes to friends, telling them she shot Chris in self-defense after he beat and tried to drown her. She claims she shot him while running from him; however, Chris's body is found zipped in his sleeping bag, the bullet having hit him directly between the eyes. Oregon detectives suspect they're looking at homicide but have little evidence to prove it. While the abridgment eliminates most of the letters, journal entries, and graphic forensic details, Blair Brown's intelligent reading keeps the listener in thrall. Her clear, unemotional presentation of this grim story turns it into chilling drama. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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Rule, Ann Last dance, last chance and other true cases
New York Pocket Books 2003 067102535X / 9780671025359 Hardcover
A note on liars -- Last dance, last chance -- The accountant -- The killer who begged to die -- The beach -- The deperate hours. The title case is an account of the life and crimes of Dr. Anthony Pignataro, a cosmetic surgeon with a penchant for forged credentials, botched surgeries, to the attempted arsenic poisoning of his wife. Four other true cases follow.
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