Ann Rule

From the perspective of the former policewoman, crime writer, and unknowing personal friend, tells the story of Ted Bundy, a brilliant law student executed for killing three women, who confessed to killing thirty-five others.

The Stranger Beside Me

A True Story of Passion and Murder

Small Sacrifices

Green river, running red

A True Story of Obsession, Revenge, and Murder

Every Breath You Take 

Dead by Sunset

Everything she ever wanted

Thomas Capano, the deadly seducer

--And never let her go

and other true cases

You belong to me

Andy Stack

Tells the story of a clever criminal who used a legal loophole to escape conviction and perpetrate more murders

The Want-ad Killer

Il est 7 h 30, le samedi 4 décembre 2004, lorsque Steve et Kelly Comeau sont réveillés en sursaut par des coups frappés à leur porte. C'est le fils de leurs voisins, le petit Dalton Corbin, en pyjama, le visage ruisselant de larmes. " Ma maman ne respire plus. Il faut appeler les secours. " Kelly se précipite 6167 et trouve Jennifer, la tête en sang, la crosse d'un revolver dépassant de sous la couette. La police conclura à un suicide. Mais un des inspecteurs n'est pas convaincu. Et si ce drame avait un rapport avec un autre " suicide " survenu quatorze ans plus tôt, celui de Dolly Hearn, ancienne conquête de Bart Corbin, le père de Dalton ? Et si la mort de Jennifer avait un rapport avec sa relation extra conjugale, peut-être dangereuse ? Ann Rule a mené sa propre enquête, en s'appuyant sur les méthodes scientifiques les plus récentes, afin que le meurtrier ne puisse, une seconde fois, échapper à la justice.

Partie Sans Dire Adieu

Un estraneo al mio fianco

Only Ann Rule, the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling true-crime author, could lend her sharp insight into these cases of the spouse, lover, family member, or helpful stranger who is totally trusted--but whose lethally violent nature, though masterfully disguised, can kill. Original.

Mortal Danger

And Other True Cases

Empty Promises

the strange death of Ronda Reynolds

In the still of the night

Why would a man kill his lover's husband and then his wife, the woman who fought successfully to have him paroled from prison? Why would he risk arrest by kidnapping the child of another woman who adored him? Because they were... Worth More Dead A cold case reopened -- and solved -- with dogged police work and new evidence. One of the shocking true crimes of passion and greed from Ann Rule's Crime Files. Former Marine sergeant and judo instructor Roland Pitre Jr. claimed it was all an elaborate plan to win back his wife's love -- it wasn't supposed to end with her dead body in the trunk of a car. Nearly twenty years later, he acknowledged that he had hired someone to kill his estranged wife in 1988, though his alleged excuse for why a monstrous "mistake" happened is as shocking and convoluted as the crime itself. Eventually, he was charged with first-degree murder in the long-unsolved death of Cheryl Pitre, after a mysterious witness betrayed Pitre to save his own skin. Tracing back the dark and bloody path of Pitre's life, two generations of detectives found a chain of brutal and terrifying crimes by a man who manipulated the courts and prisons to walk free.

Worth More Dead

This first installment in the New York Times bestselling Crime Files series is a chilling collection of shocking crimes and the ensuing struggles to bring the perpetrators to justice—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me. The “country’s premier true crime author” (Library Journal) brings her clear-eyed, compassionate writing and investigative skills to this unputdownable anthology. Distinguished by the former Seattle police officer’s razor-sharp eye for detail and her penetrating analysis of the criminal mind, the featured case in this collection is the twisted story of Randy Roth—a man who married, and murdered, for profit. Following are compelling tales of bloody vengeance, estranged relationships that turn deadly, and fateful encounters. With her trademark “unwavering voice” (Publishers Weekly), Ann Rule exposes the darkness that lurks among us.

A Rose For Her Grave & Other True Cases

Traces the murder of Whidbey Island resident Russ Douglas, who after spending Christmas with his estranged wife and children in 2003 was murdered and whose death implicated several suspects, including an aging beauty queen and her boyfriend.

Practice to Deceive

How could someone so handsome, charming, and brilliant in fact be such a monster. And when you work side by side with that person, how could you not know. That's how Ann Rule felt when she began to put together the true picture of her former co-worker and friend. Ted Bundy was on the verge of a dazzling career, and at the same time was one of America's most wanted. On January 24, 1989, he was executed for the murders of three young women, having confessed to taking the lives of at least thirty-five more. This is the story of one of the most fascinating killers in American history -- of his magnetic power, his bleak compulsion, his double life, his string of vulnerable victims. It is also the story of Ann Rule, and putting together the pieces of the biggest story of her life. Twenty years after it was first published, The Stranger Beside Me remains a gripping, explosive, true-crime classic.

A compilation of real-life crime stories includes the tales of a counterfeit priest, a serial rapist, a victim burned beyond recognition, and a con artist whose activities lead to murder.

Rachael Slate

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