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Click to view full description | 1. | Rule, Ann A Rage To Kill and Other True Cases
Pocket August 1, 1999 Paperback used; good
er private files the most-asked-about homicide cases -- riveting accounts o f seemingly normal men and women who are compelled d by a murderous rage to suddenly lash out at innocent victims. Torn from the headlines, here is the case that shocked a nation: the Seattl e city bus ride that turned to mayhem and murder at the hands of a gunman. Ann Rule unmasks the forces that drove quiet, clean-cut Silas Cool to shoot the driver, causing the bus to plunge off the Aurora Bridge into an apartm ent building. The catastrophe left three dead -- including Cool -- and doze ns injured. While the scene unfolds as in a terrifying movie, Rule finds ve ry real answers to the haunting question "how could this happen?" -- and ex pertly constructs the unseen chain of events that resulted in an explosive and shattering tragedy. Included here are nine other sensational cases that illuminate Rule's unique and authoritative view of the human psyche gone temporarily berserk. No one can match Rule's meticulous research, or reveal the motives to murder in such explicit and chilling detail. You may think you know who is safe and who is dangerous; in A Rage to Kill, Ann Rule frighteningly shows that none of us are truly protected from the flashes of irrational violence that can erupt from the killers among us.
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| 2. | Rule, Ann Every Breath You Take
Free Press January 14, 200 Hardcover; w/j hardcover w/dustjacket; good
The latest from respected true crime veteran Rule (And Never Let Her Go, et c.) walks readers through the tortured life and ugly murder of Sheila Bellu sh, a woman relentlessly pursued by her sexually obsessed ex-husband, Allen Van Houte. The crime scene is horrific: Bellush lies dead in the kitchen w hile her toddler quadruplets are left to walk naked through her blood. Bell ush had long warned close friends that she feared her ex-husband's reprisal s and went so far as to request "if I'm not here... find Ann Rule and have her write my story." Rule, in classic form, meticulously re-creates the pro saic lives of her characters, charting one woman's pleasantly humdrum exist ence undermined by a man bent on making a fortune though defaulting on bank loans and pedestrian cons, such as swindling family members. After he lure d Bellush into his world of sexual play, she left him, and he hired a man t o kill her. The subsequent fallout included a complex and lengthy inquiry b y investigators. There are no surprises here for the reader, though some ma y enjoy Rule's examination of Van Houte's manipulative and predatory nature . Essentially, this account is too long for its limited subject matter. (Oc t. 15)Forecast: Sixteen of Rule's 18 books have been bestsellers, and the F ree Press is pushing this with a 10-city tour, a 20-city radio satellite to ur and floor displays. But it's possible that less-than-favorable word-of-m outh will cut into sales.
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| 3. | Rule, Ann Small Sacrifices: A True Story of Passion and Murder
Signet Book July, 1988 Mass Market Pa used: very good
This searching analysis of the shooting of three children in Oregon by thei r mother devolves into a study of personality. In May of 1983, Diane Downs drove to a Williamette Valley hospital emergency room with her children, al l gravely wounded; one did not survive the first hour, and the other two we re disabled for life. Downs initially told of a "bushy-haired stranger" who had committed the crime, but frequently changed her story. Under police qu estioning she recalled her childhood with a cold, domineering father who ab used her sexually, her weak mother, a rape by one of her bosses, her failed marriage and many men with whom she had sex. One of these men, whom she cl aimed to love, did not want children, and that may have prompted the crime, speculates the author. The greatest strength of this book is the explorati on by ex-policewoman Rule (The Stranger Beside Me of the aberrant personali ty of Downs, who is now imprisoned and not eligible for parole until 2009.
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| 4. | Rule, Ann The Stranger Beside Me
Signet Book June 1, 2001 Mass Market Pa used; very good
Not long ago, true crime writer Ann Rule recalls lying on an operating tabl e. The anesthesiologist leaned over before putting her to sleep. "Ann," the anesthesiologist said softly, "tell me, what was Ted Bundy really like?" D espite meeting Florida's electric chair in 1989, the subject of Rule's best selling book continues to haunt her. Rule and Bundy were friends. They met in 1971 at a Seattle crisis clinic, where they shared the late shift answer ing a suicide hotline. Their subsequent conversations, meetings, and letter s spanned the rest of Bundy's life as he evolved into one of the century's most notorious serial killers. It's been 20 years since Rule first penned t his chilling account. But the story--and her 2000 update--will still have r eaders reaching for their Xanax. No gratuitous gore here; just the basic, b one-chilling evidence. In fact, like a protective mother shielding us from horrors too awful to mention, Rule seems to avoid delving too deeply into c rime scene descriptions.
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| 5. | Rule, Ann The Want-Ad Killer
Signet Book March 1, 1995 Mass Market Pa used; very good
After his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence a nd continued to manipulate, rape, and bludgeon women to death--using want a ds to lure his young female victims. And time after time, justice was thwarted by a killer whose twisted legal g enius was matched only by his sick savagery. Here, complete with the testimony of women who suffered his unspeakable sex ual abuses and barely escaped with their lives, and of the police who at la st put him behind bars, is one of the most shattering and thought-provoking true-crime stories of our time. * Includes 8 pages of photographs
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| 6. | Rule, Ann (Foreword) Profiles in Murder : An FBI Legend Dissects Killers and Their Crimes
Dell January 9, 2001 Paperback used; good
"Profiler" Russell Vorpagel looks back at a career that encompasses some of the most horrific crimes in the FBI's files. The gruesome accounts through out the book--from the former mental patient who eviscerated his victims an d drank their blood because he believed that his own blood was turning to p owder, to the middle-aged woman found half-naked amid strewn sex toys in a burning house--are held together by the framework of a class taught by Vorp agel to students (including police officers, FBI agents, and attorneys) try ing to learn more about how he and other FBI profilers analyze a crime scen e and determine, with sometimes frightening accuracy, what sort of person d id it. The techniques used by Vorpagel and his associates allow them to det ermine the age, sex, race, physical appearance, and habits of some of the m ost deranged killers so accurately that several suspects have been identifi ed based almost exclusively on their profiles. The book is a fascinating an d often disturbing glimpse into the minds of people who kill for reasons mo st of us can't even fathom.
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