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Pocket Books (2011), Edition: First Pocket Books paperback edition December 2011, 480 pages
Description
Rule chronicles fateful encounters with the hidden predators among us in this riveting collection. Uncover cases of unfortunate victims who made one tragic mistake: trusting the wrong person-- even someone they'd know intimately, or thought they knew.
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LibraryThing member MrDickie
Ann Rule needs to hire a good editor. The quality of her books isn't what it used to be. In this one, especially in the main story, she repeats herself quite often.
LibraryThing member Marlene-NL
This book helped me remember why I am not a fan of her True crime cases.
The problem is that she writes these books a lot and that her stand alone books come out once every 4 years! or so. I prefer the latter.
Sorry to Ann Rule fans but I feel she is writing more to earn money now than that her heart
Even her first couple of true crime cases books, were so much better.
The last book she wrote and I loved was Too Late to Say Goodbye. A great read, but then I am talking about a book that was published in 2007! She did write another stand alone last year but I read so many negative reviews, I decided to take a rain check. I will read it one day.
The thing is, what this author does and what annoys the hell out of me, She did it in Heart Full of Lies and according to all the reviews, also in her last book: In The Still of The Night, that is that she worships the person who was murdered. They are always perfect, have hardly any mistakes, while the perpetrators are all only bad. Don't mind the latter but the making an angel from someone, makes me crazy. Yes even more! ;)
As someone else mentioned, she also has the tendency (like Stephen King) to write herself in her books. As with this book.
In the first story she mentions a couple of times that this woman lived in the same town. That her kids were in the same school as the children in this book. (They did not even know the kids!)
To my annoyance I finished the first story which was very dry and not the best story, to discover this case was not solved at all!
The other stories were not much better. I will give it 2 stars but do not recommend.
The problem is that she writes these books a lot and that her stand alone books come out once every 4 years! or so. I prefer the latter.
Sorry to Ann Rule fans but I feel she is writing more to earn money now than that her heart
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is in it.Even her first couple of true crime cases books, were so much better.
The last book she wrote and I loved was Too Late to Say Goodbye. A great read, but then I am talking about a book that was published in 2007! She did write another stand alone last year but I read so many negative reviews, I decided to take a rain check. I will read it one day.
The thing is, what this author does and what annoys the hell out of me, She did it in Heart Full of Lies and according to all the reviews, also in her last book: In The Still of The Night, that is that she worships the person who was murdered. They are always perfect, have hardly any mistakes, while the perpetrators are all only bad. Don't mind the latter but the making an angel from someone, makes me crazy. Yes even more! ;)
As someone else mentioned, she also has the tendency (like Stephen King) to write herself in her books. As with this book.
In the first story she mentions a couple of times that this woman lived in the same town. That her kids were in the same school as the children in this book. (They did not even know the kids!)
To my annoyance I finished the first story which was very dry and not the best story, to discover this case was not solved at all!
The other stories were not much better. I will give it 2 stars but do not recommend.
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LibraryThing member BellaFoxx
If you are familiar with Ann Rule’s Crime Files, you know that this is a compilation of cases. The first one is always very lengthy, normally about half of the book, and the rest are smaller. I can’t really give you a synopsis of the cases, I read this almost a month ago and kind of buzzed
For those of you who feel (I’ve read the reviews) that she ‘phoned this in’, this was written rather recently, when her health was failing. I say this because the writing may not be up to her previous works, but still good and readable.
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through it. What I will say is this, if you like Ann Rule’s writing, and her Crime Files, you will probably like this.For those of you who feel (I’ve read the reviews) that she ‘phoned this in’, this was written rather recently, when her health was failing. I say this because the writing may not be up to her previous works, but still good and readable.
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LibraryThing member BookNookRetreat7
Kept me riveted to the end - classic Ann Rule - a definite page turner! Definitely a five star book!
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
480 p.; 6.75 inches
ISBN
1451641087 / 9781451641080