Ann Rule Bücher

Blick in den Abgrund - bk183; Weltbild Verlag; Ann Rule; Paperback; 1998

Auf den ersten Blick scheint Mike und Deborah alles zu haben, um glücklich zu sein. Dieses junge Ärztepaar hat drei Kinder, lebt in einer wohlhabenden Vorstadt und besitzt ein prächtiges Haus. Doch nach und nach zerbricht dieses Glück. Mike leidet unter immer schlimmeren Schmerzen, deren Ursache niemand kennt. Ihr Zuhause wird in Brand gesetzt, und zwei ihrer Kinder sterben in den Flammen. Die Polizei bemüht sich, einen Anfangspunkt für ihre Ermittlungen zu finden. Mike und Deborah haben keine bekannten Feinde. Wer könnte sie also so grausam angreifen? Mit der ihr eigenen Finesse entfaltet Ann Rule das Geflecht einer tragischen Verbindung, geprägt von Untreue, Verzweiflung und einem unstillbaren Verlangen nach Rache.

Detectiv Fred McLean hatte schon eine ganze Reihe von Mördern verhaftet. Aber dieses kleine Mädchen, das seit mehreren Stunden in kalter Dunkelheit in ihrem eigenen Erbrochenen gelegen hatte, war die bemitleidenswerteste mutmaßliche Täterin, der er jemals begegnet war. McLean entrollt den rosafarbenen Streifen aus Pappkarton, den Cinnamon in ihrer rechten Hand gehalten hatte. In dem schwachen Licht konnte er die Druckbuchstaben auf dem Karton entziffern: "Lieber Gott, bitte verzeih mir, aber ich wollte sie nicht verletzen." Ann Rule war, bevor sie Amerikas führende Autorin für wahre Kriminalfälle wurde, selbst Polizistin in Seattle und arbeitete lange Zeit als Kriminalreporterin. Sie war eine der fünf Zivilpersonen, die von der US-Regierung ausgewählt wurden, um jenes Programm auszuarbeiten, mit dem heute in ganz Amerika Serienmörder überführt werden.

Ann Rule 's shocking and powerful account of the destructive forces that drove Diane Downs , a beautiful young mother, to shoot her three young children in cold blood.

In this thirteenth volume of Ann Rule's series of paperback originals, the Queen of Crime focuses on victims of violent crimes who had no idea they were in mortal danger, often from people in their lives who were strangers right there beside them.

The New York Times bestselling True Crime Files series continues with this haunting collection of the dangers lurking among those we trust the most, from the #1 bestselling author Ann Rule.

America's master of true crime presents her biggest book yet: the long-awaited story of the terrifying Green River killings, with more than 48 young women victims, and a murderer who hid his horrific addiction for two decades. of photos.

The international classic of true crime... More than 2 million copies sold in the English language alone.

*Third volume of Ann Rule's bestselling Crime Files anthologies - a benchmark in true crime writing.

The author of eight New York Times bestsellers, Ann Rule first won nationwide acclaim with The Stranger Beside Me, about serial killer Ted Bundy. Her Crime Files volumes, based on fascinating case histories, have assured her reputation as our premier chronicler of crime. Now the former Seattle policewoman brings us the horrific account of a charismatic man adored by beautiful and brilliant women who always gave him what he wanted...sex, money, their very lives.... When attorney Cheryl Keeton's brutally bludgeoned body was found in her van in the fast lane of an Oregon freeway, her husband, Brad Cunningham, was the likely suspect. But there was no solid evidence linking him to the crime. He married again, for the fifth time, and his stunning new wife, a physician named Sara, adopted his three sons. They all settled down to family life on a luxurious estate. But gradually, their marriage became a nightmare.... In this gripping account of Cheryl's murder, Ann Rule takes us from Brad's troubled boyhood to one of the most bizarre trials in legal history, uncovering multiple marriages, financial manipulations, infidelities, and monstrous acts of harassment and revenge along the way. Dead By Sunset is Ann Rule at her riveting best.

In this chilling volume of bestselling author Ann Rule's Crime Files, discover unforgettable cases of a spouse, lover, family member or helpful stranger who is totally trusted-until it's too late.

To his neighbors, Jerry Brudo was a gentle man whose mild manner contrasted with his awesome physical strength. To his employers, Jerry was a fine worker. To his wife, he was a good husband. And to the Oregon police, Jerry Brudo was the most hideously twisted killer they had ever unmasked.

From Americas #1 true crime writer and New York Times bestselling author comes her most engrossing book ever: a 14-year saga of treachery, jealousy, and murder, about two women who learned the truth too late about Dr. Bart Corbin of Atlanta.

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A ROSE FOR HER GRAVE - the principal story of this collection - vividly recreates the cautionary tale of Randy Roth, a misogynistic sociopath from the Pacific North-West whose rage was directed primarily at women and children. Addicted to his own greed, Roth exercised a powerful aura of control over his victims, using his ability to charm and boyish good looks to lower their defences. By the time they saw the reality of the madness in his eyes, it was usually too late. This, along with five other chilling cases, bears the stamp of classic Ann Rule - informed, comprehensive, and eerily evocative of man's inhumanity to man.

From America's most celebrated true-crime writer comes the heartbreaking real-life drama of a doomed young woman hopelessly trapped in a web of sexual intrigue, political manipulation and emotional deception by her charming and successful - but ultimately deadly - lover. In the most complex and shocking book of her long career, Ann Rule delves into the motivation that drove a seemingly successful man to kill, and she explores hitherto unknown aspects of a fatal affair between a beautiful young woman who moved confidently in the heady world of the upper echelons of government and a widely admired millionaire attorney who was an immensely popular political figure. Ann Rule brilliantly traces the lives of both Ann Marie Fahey and Tommy Capano as she discloses the intimate details of their ill-fated bonding. A vulnerable, trusting woman becomes spellbound by a charming, duplicitous married man, and what begins as a seemingly unremarkable affair is slowly transformed into an obsessive, convoluted and deadly relationship.

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.

Joined in a romantic love that most people only ever dream about, Pat Taylor's marriage to Tom Allanson was all she ever wanted. Both came from fine Southern families, and both longed to recreate for themselves a plantation where they would raise horses, grow roses, and move with grace and style in the highest social circles of Atlanta; in short, to be the Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler of their time. But scarcely two months later, their perfect world had erupted into family hatreds, terror, bloodshed and murder, The beautiful estate was mysteriously burned to the ground and Tom Allanson stood accused of the brutal slaying of his own mother and father. Before the terrifying truth about the perpetrator was revealed, other innocent victims were to suffer attempts on their lives as intricate family loyalties and cruel, obsessive jealousies were played out.

"Previously publisher under the pseudonym Andy Stack."--Title page verso.

'If anything ever happens to me. find Ann Rule and ask her to write my story.' In perhaps the first true crime book written at the request of the victim, Ann Rule untangles a web of lies and brutality that culminated in the murder of Sheila Blackthorne Bellush- a woman Rule never met, but whose shocking story she now chronicles with compassion, exacting detail and unvarnished candour. Although happily ensconced in a loving second marriage, and a new family of quadruplets, Sheila never truly escpaed the vicious enslavement of her ex-husband, multi-millionaire Allen Blackthorne, a handsome charmer- and a violent controlling sociopath who subjected Sheila to unthinkable abuse in their marriage and terrorised her for a decade after their divorce. When Sheila was slain in her home in the presence of four toddlers, authorities raced to link the crime to Blackthorne, the man who vowed to monitor Sheila's every move in his obsessive quest for power and revenge.

The bestselling author of THE STRANGER BESIDE ME, DEAD BY SUNSET and BITTER HARVEST, Ann Rule is an acknowledged expert on violent crimes. In this fifth volume of fascinating true cases, she explores the circumstances that has driven ordinary people to cross society's boundaries and commit the desperate act of murder. In THE END OF THE DREAM, Ann Rule chillingly profiles the workings of a criminal mind, and confirms she is the world's number-one writer of true crime.

MORE THAN 20 MILLION COPIES OFANN RULE'S BOOKS IN PRINT! In this unnerving collection drawn from her personal crime files, "America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews) Ann Rule brilliantly dissects the convoluted love affairs that all too often end in violence. Expertly analyzing a shocking, headline-making case, Rule unmasks the deadly motives inside a seemingly idyllic marriage: a beautiful young wife, a rising star in America's top-ranked computer corporation, and a prosperous husband, the scion of a family building business. With an adorable son and a gorgeous home, the couple seemed to have it all. But a furtive evil permeated their days and nights, dragging them into a murky world of drugs, sordid sex, and con operations. In this realm, one of them would prove to be a virtual innocent, the other a manipulator with no conscience. Sudden, violent death brought their charade of a fairy-tale romance to a tragic end -- with a brutal crime that might never have come to light were it not for the stubborn detectives and prosecutors whose fight for justice spanned an entire decade. Empty Promises recounts several other cases where the search for love brought only lies and betrayal -- a cautionary primer, perhaps, for those who trust too much too soon. Powerful because they strike so close to home, the cases in Empty Promises will leave readers shaken by the realities of love gone terribly -- and fatally -- wrong.

The dark side of love is no fairy tale.... And while we may like to believe that crimes of the heart only victimize those who aren't careful, this page-turning collection of must-read accounts will convince you otherwise. America's #1 true-crime writer, Ann Rule reveals how lovers become predators, how sex and lust can push ordinary people to desperate acts, and how investigators and forensics experts work to unravel the most entangled crimes of passion. Extracting behind-the-scenes details, Rule makes these volatile relationships utterly real, and masterfully re-creates the ill-fated chains of events in such cases as the ex-Marine and martial arts master who seduced vulnerable women and then destroyed their lives...the killer whose calling card was a single bloodred rose...the faithless wife who manipulated and murdered without conscience...the blind date that set the stage for a killer's brutality...and more. In every case, the victim -- young and innocent or older and experienced -- unknowingly trusted a stranger with the sociopathic skill to hide their dark motives, until it was too late to escape a web of deadly lies, fatal promises, and homicidal possession.

The book provides an in-depth look at the Mary Winkler murder case, featuring insider commentary from Ann Rule. It explores the complexities of the case, delving into the psychological aspects and the societal implications surrounding the events. Rule's insights shed light on the motivations behind the crime and the subsequent legal proceedings, making it a compelling read for those interested in true crime and criminal psychology.

'Don't Look Behind You' focuses on stories of people in danger, sometimes from strangers and sometimes from the people they know and love.

Featuring a gripping collection of true crime stories, this book delves into the case of a fraudulent doctor whose lifelong deceptions led to tragic outcomes. Drawing from the author's private files, it promises riveting narratives that explore the darker aspects of human nature. This work serves as the inspiration for the upcoming Lifetime movie event, Desperate Hours, highlighting the compelling and often chilling realities of crime.

Ann Rule, America's true crime master, explores the chilling Green River killings, offering a harrowing insight into a modern monster who lived among us undetected.

From the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE comes the story of a woman whose ambition was exceeded only by her cruelty. Some grim synchronicity placed Liysa, a Texan with a slew of male victims in her wake, on the same path as Chris, a handsome pilot. Liysa wanted to be a Hollywood screenwriter, and she not only wanted to destroy Chris' reputation, she wanted his million-dollar fortune. One sunny morning, Chris lay dead in his sleeping bag beside a shallow river, while Liysa drove four hours to show up sobbing on a friend's front porch. She appeared to have been beaten, but more and more questions arose that made detectives suspicious. In the end, the woman who appeared to have it all was convicted of the brutal and well-planned murder of the man who had loved her more than anyone. A true story of desire and death, HEART FULL OF LIES is another remarkable case study from the undisputed Queen of True Crime.

This New York Times bestseller is a shocking tale of greed, sex, scandal, and murder on an isolated and eerie island in the Pacific Northwest.

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Seattle author, Cheryl Landes puts her talents and long time love affair with her city Seattle into a delightful, entertaining and informative text about this gem of the northwest city -- "Seattle." Skillfully guiding you through famous streets, neighborhoods and the delightful nooks and crannies, Cheryl brings the city alive in this new publication that follows a long succession of wonderful books about "Seattle." The best yet, this text is supported with stunningly beautiful photography from many of the northwest's best photographers, including Mark Windom and Rick Morley. This is a publication you don't want to miss!

Même les milliardaires californiens se volatilisent. Par une chaude nuit d'octobre, Jerry Harris disparaît sans crier gare. Lubie de nabab en quête de sensations fortes ? Escapade extraconjugale aux Bahamas ? Fuite improvisée dans un paradis fiscal ? près tout, ce selfmade-man exhibe volontiers sa réussite et se targue - avec raison - de chanter mieux qu'Elvis. Seule son épouse Susan ne souscrit pas à ces folles hypothèses et trouve un allié précieux en la personne d'un agent du FBI... " Sans nouvelles de toi : une plongée terrifiante dans le mythe américain doublée d'une traque éperdue et d'une histoire d'amour bouleversante, par l'inégalable reine du thriller authentique. " New York Times