Mortal Danger and Other True Cases
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781597228589 (1597228583)
Publish date: November 1st 2008
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing
Pages no: 613
Edition language: English
Series: Crime Files (#13)
I think that Rule should have kept the first story as it's own standalone cause that with the other stories doesn't really work. Mortal Danger (3 stars)-The first story is about Kathy Ann Jewell and her affair with a man that she really didn't know. I think that Rule dragged things out way too mu...
So compelling. I couldn't put it down. There's just something about Ann Rule's true crime novels that just grip me and suck me right on it. They give me the creeps, and they are sad and disturbing, and yet I just can't get enough.
With rare exceptions, Ann Rule is the only true crime I care to read. I like the way she tries to give us a portrait of the victim as they were in life, with hopes and fears and people who loved them, rather than focusing on grisly sensationalism. I also like the way she has made it her mission t...
The Queen of True Crime. My mom and I shared her books throughout the late 80's and well into the 2000's. It's been several years since I read any of her work though and I'm feeling the non-fiction, true crime call again so I'll be looking to pick up some more of Rule's work soon.
16 years ago
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