Posted on 01/30/2008 2:13:32 PM PST by Fishtalk
A short synopsis of the book, all in the True Crime genre, with a link to the review.
ANN RULE BOOK REVIEWS
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Review Ann Rule's "Every Breath You Take"
Shiela Bellush had quadruplets and, unfortunately, two daughters with Allen Blackthorne.
Blackthorne had everything a man could want. But he didn't have Shiela.
So he murdered her and left her babies toddling all about their mother's body.
Review Ann Rule's "Every Breath You Take"
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Ann Rule's "Heart Full of Lies" and "Bitter Harvest"
Liysa Northon was featured in Rule's "Heart Full of Lies". Liysa was pretty, intelligent and fortunate enough to live in two homes, one in Hawaii and one in Bend, Oregon. She was married to a Hawaiian Airlines pilot, Chris Northon, and was a talented photographer and writer in her own right.
Dr. Debora Green was a physician married to another physician, a Cardiologist, Dr. Mike Farrar. The couple owned a luxury home in Prairie Village, Kansas.
Both women had beautiful children; Liysa had two precocious boys while Debora had a son and two daughters. Both women wanted their husbands dead. One succeeded, the other gave it a try. Debora Green's house burned down and two of her precious children perished in the flames.
Both of these women are crazy as loons.
Ann Rule's "Heart Full of Lies" and "Bitter Harvest"
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Ann Rule's "No Regrets"
A book review as Ann Rule does it again with "No, Regrets".
He piloted mighty boats and lived past 80 years but his own wife ended it all for him.
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Ann Rule-"And Never Let Her Go"
And Never Let Her Go" is the true crime story of Thomas Capano, scion of a wealthy Delaware family, lawyer and political insider. It wasn't that long ago that this case was splashed in all the newspapers in this area and I vowed that when someone wrote the book I would look into it immediately. I was delighted that Ann Rule wrote the book.
Ann Rule-"And Never Let Her Go"
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Ann Rule “Last Dance, Last Chance”
This book by Ann Rule is unique out of all her novels in that Rule actually got to interview the victim who almost died at the hands of the idiot around who the story is based.
Ann Rule-“Last Dance, Last Chance”
OTHER TRUE CRIME BOOK REVIEWS
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"WITNESS-Amber Frey's story."
She did the right thing in turning in the fine Scott Peterson.
Did anyone ever teach this woman the art of birth control?
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"Tainted Roses"
So here you have it. A truly AWFUL true crime book that I'm bothering to write a review on that readers be warned.
A murderer, Paul Mack...alias Sean Lanier, meets up with a recently divorced woman, sweet talks her into romance and marriage, then is exposed on "America's Most Wanted" to his new wife's horror.
Guess who his wife was? Margie Danielsen.
That's right. The book is written by the "victim" of Sean Lanier and so far as I'm concerned, this woman is a certified idiot.
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The Summer Wind-George Anastasia
Anastasia is a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer and attended the trial of Capano. His perspective on the reporting is distant and less personal than Rule?s account. If someone held a gun to my head and only had one choice to read about the nefarious Thomas Capano, I'd suggest they go with the Rule version. Maybe it's a woman thing, but Rule always brings that female insight often lacking in the prose of male true-crime writers. Nonetheless, Anastasia did a fine job and his skill as a writer is quite evident.
The Summer Wind-George Anastasia
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"Fatal Analysis" by Dr. Martin Obler and Thomas Clavin
A Book Review of a true crime book "Final Analysis" by Dr. Martin Obler.
It's a good true crime story about a serial killer, his shrink and efforts to stop the killing.
Only thing, although proclaimed to be true, I didn't believe a word of Obler's psychobabble nonsense.
It's almost a sin to classify this book as non-fiction.
"Fatal Analysis" by Dr. Martin Obler and Thomas Clavin
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Shattered" by Debra Puglisi Sharp
Also, a Book Review of a book by an author that promised me an interview but she didn't deliver. I read the book anyway, here's the review but I don't think much of people making promises they don't keep.
She was held hostage by a crack-crazed nut for six days, hog-tied and repeatedly raped and tortured until she finally got to the phone to freedom.
It's a compelling book, this "Shattered" by Debra Puglisi Sharp.
Too bad she's not a woman of her word for all her heroism.
Shattered" by Debra Puglisi Sharp
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"Unspeakable Acts" by Jan Worthington
A True Crime Book Review of "Unspeakable Acts". This book is more accurately a tome. Half of it could have been deleted. For this tale of two hippie doctors eliciting tales of abuse in a daycare center in the hysteria of the mid-80's is almost entirely fiction.
This is a great study of how the Lamestream Media creates a story from thin air.
"Unspeakable Acts" by Jan Worthington
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"Missing Beauty"
A True Crime book review-"Missing Beauty" by Teresa Carpenter, tells the story of a very intelligent scientist who gets caught up in the world of prostitution, drugs...and murder.
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"Unfinished Murder" by James Neff
A book review, "Unfinished Murder" by James Neff. The book title is indicative of a True Crime that is considered by many to be a killing crime not quite complete. He's a serial rapist and this is a story of his life and how he got caught.
"Unfinished Murder" by James Neff
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2 BOOKS ON JONBENET RAMSEY-PERFECT MURDER, PERFECT TOWN-Lawrence Shiller, JONBENET BY DETECTIVE STEVE THOMAS
It was never my intention to become an expert on the Jonbenet Ramsey case, but given my complete and total absorption in the two books most recently read following the colon, I must say I'm pretty much up to snuff on all the players, suspects and victim: "Jonbenet" by Detective Steve Thomas; "Perfect Murder, Perfect Town" by Lawrence Schiller.
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"Evidence of Love" by John Bloom and Jim Atkinson
I could not put this book down.
For if ever there were two couples so very, very odd while appearing for all the world to be so perfectly normal, it would be the Montgomerys and the Gores of Collin County, Texas.
Then there was the Methodist church and the strange preachers combined with weirdly devoted parishioners and oddball church-sanctioned "marriage counseling" that added to the reader's perception that this book HAD to be fiction; surely churches and normal people don't behave like this.
"Evidence of Love" by John Bloom and Jim Atkinson
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My wife loves to read Ann Rule books. That’s why I always try to stay on her good side...
First, if your wife loves Ann Rule books....she’s got great taste.
Second, show her this thread. She might be interested in the non-Ann Rule books if this is a genre she likes.
;)
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