Ann Rule

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October 22, 1935 in Lowell, Michigan, The United States

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Ann Rule is a popular American true crime writer. She came to prominence with her first book, The Stranger Beside Me, about the Ted Bundy murders.
At the time she started researching the book, the murders were still unsolved. In the course of time, it became clear that the killer was Bundy, her friend and her colleague as a trained volunteer on the suicide hotline at the Seattle, Washington Crisis Clinic, giving her a unique distinction among true crime writers. She has also met and interviewed — in less intimate circumstances — a number of other serial killers in the course of researching her books.
Ann Rule also writes under the name Andy Stack.

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Average rating: 3.92 · 47,356 ratings · 2,619 reviews · 50 distinct works

	The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story 4.10 avg rating — 8,796 ratings — published 1980 — 24 editions	My rating:
	Small Sacrifices: A True Story of Passion and Murder 4.12 avg rating — 4,474 ratings — published 1987 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer--America's Deadliest Serial Murderer 3.83 avg rating — 2,743 ratings — published 2004 — 18 editions	My rating:
	If You Really Loved Me 3.89 avg rating — 2,280 ratings — published 1991 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Every Breath You Take: A True Story of Obsession, Revenge, and Murder 3.92 avg rating — 2,114 ratings — published 2002 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer? 3.91 avg rating — 1,987 ratings — published 1995 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Everything She Ever Wanted 3.84 avg rating — 1,953 ratings — published 1992 — 9 editions	My rating:
	And Never Let Her Go: Thomas Capano: The Deadly Seducer 3.96 avg rating — 1,818 ratings — published 1999 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Bitter Harvest 3.92 avg rating — 1,888 ratings — published 1997 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal 3.89 avg rating — 1,703 ratings — published 2007 — 15 editions	My rating:

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“. . .three percent of all males are deemed to be antisocial and without conscience, while only one percent of females seem to lack compassion for others. But the icy manipulations of that one percent are utterly fascinating. No one can be crueler than a woman without a conscience.”
― Ann Rule, Empty Promises

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“There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.”
― Ann Rule

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“She reminded Kevin again that she had forced herself to turn and walk away from him when everything in her wanted to stay.”
― Ann Rule

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Genre: True Crime

Deadline to vote will be 6/16/12

The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey

1 vote, 33.3%

The Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most Baffling Crimes by Colin Evans

1 vote, 33.3%

The Want-Ad Killer by Ann Rule

1 vote, 33.3%

Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists by Anthony M. Amore

0 votes, 0.0%

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett

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The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science by Douglas Starr

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