A Rose For Her Grave (Ann Rules Crime Files Book 1)

A Rose For Her Grave & Other True Cases

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Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder: But I Trusted You: Don't Look Behind You: And that's what I wanted to get. Ann Rule goes into my bin of favorite authors. I finished this in a few days and indeed, found it difficult to put down. Mass Market Paperback Verified Purchase.

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I purchased a used copy that was printed in There may be newer, updated versions available, so do look for one if you'd like to read this book. Perhaps Rule wasn't able get to them, or permission to use them; but it is a huge and frustrating omission. I agree with Ann Rule that it is the victims who are the most important in any case and that they deserve to be remembered.

So why include boring photos of some guys sitting at desks detectives who worked on the cases but no photo of the victim? I'm not morbidly lusting after gory crime scene photos of dead bodies, I just would like to see a nice photo of how each victim looked in life. The detectives certainly earned the right to be credited for their dedication, hard work, skill, and intuition; but their physical appearances have nothing to do with the stories and such photos add nothing to the book.

They had to have realized that they weren't getting the full story.

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It must have been terribly frustrating to them as well as for the detectives who worked so hard to gather that information and put the cases together. It makes you question some aspects of the American justice system. Don't even get me started on the shockingly violent killer who was released from prison after serving just a few years of his term - and then went on to commit further identically-gruesome murders on new victims. Or the one who was sent out on an unsupervised work-release program just a few miles away from the home where his surviving victim was attacked and still resided, and whose testimony was instrumental in his conviction; with.

I was going to say "predictable results," but in this case the result was unpredictably - even unthinkably - catastrophic. Rule is writing books like this one. The American public needs to know about the cracks in our criminal justice system that allowed these things to happen. Shorter case studies work the best in this compilation. This Ann Rule entry is a collection of crime stories. Rule has a talent for laying out case studies in a clear and well-researched writing style.

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However, this book starts off slowly with little to build the narrative. The first case goes on and on into minutiae, and was difficult to complete. The five other case studies which follow are much shorter in length and seem to fit this format better. Because the book has such a monotonous and over-weighted start, it feels disjointed and somehow incomplete.

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The characters' personalities in this true story are so well developed that their motivation is easily understood. A couple of them actually remind me of people I know. I'm not finished with it yet, but I can't wait to read another from this author.

All Ann Rule's true crime books are great. She writes in a detailed manner that shows the work that went into the story. There is no fluffy stuff just to fill the pages. I have read all her books and many other different authors true crime work. I find her writing to stand above the rest.

Unfortunately she passed away less than 2 years ago and I will miss her contribution to this genre. I like it when Ann puts a long story and then short stories into one book. I've been reading her for about three years now. I have not come across anything I didn't like. This one is just as good as any of the others I have read from her. Perhaps depending on the subject might Rule spend more time writing. The more notorious, the more pages, or a more popular title.

I never heard of Randy Roth before, nor any of the others from the cases in this book, but I liked it just as much as Stranger Beside Me and Small Sacrifices.

Ann Rule never disappoints! I have just about all of her books on my Kindle! Those that I don't have on my Kindle yet,I've read in paperback flrm. She's been one of my favorite authors for many years! As always, Ann Rule gives you a look into the twisted people who walk the streets, leaving gruesome trails of brutality and taking of unsuspecting lives with them. Thank you Ann for teaching us to watch for them. See all reviews.

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