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labunnywtf's review
3.0
Solid Ann Rule. Nothing spectacular, but not mind numbing. A pleasant read, considering it's true crime.
thatnerd's review against another edition
2.0
I remember a time when I would tear through an Ann Rule like nobody's business. I don't know what has happened to her writing. This book felt like a chore to me and I was glad to see it end. Also, I don't care for her needlessly inserting herself into a story. In one of the stories, she mentions REPEATEDLY that her children attended school with the missing woman's children. This is NOT relevant, IMO, especially since she didn't know the missing woman, the children weren't friends, and she didn't even know anything about the missing woman's case until years later. I guess I just became less of a fan after reading The Stranger Beside Me and saw how hard she tried to make a story where there really wasn't one. I want to like her books, I do. But, she needs to write the stories and not insert herself into them.
donnakaye64's review
5.0
Another book from Ann Rule chronicling rape and murder cases. I have never been disappointed by her books. I recommend this book to all who read True Crime.
nursenell's review
5.0
You can never go wrong with Ann Rule. I like how she not only writes about crime but she always goes into what makes people the way they are, what drives them to do what they do.
csdaley's review
3.0
I like true crime books. This one was okay. I would have rated it better but the last two selections were on rape. My own personal history makes reading those selections very difficult. I do like when they get caught though. I especially appreciate good police work.
One of the selections was on spousal abuse. Also hard to read. I tend to like my true crime a little more police procedural and a little less focusing on the horrific worlds people are forced to live through.
One of the selections was on spousal abuse. Also hard to read. I tend to like my true crime a little more police procedural and a little less focusing on the horrific worlds people are forced to live through.