Ann Rule

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in Lowell, Michigan, The United States

October 22, 1935

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female

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http://www.annrules.com/

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Nonfiction

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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: 3.99 · 77,571 ratings · 3,443 reviews · 54 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story 4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 16,014 ratings — published 1980 — 28 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Small Sacrifices: A True Story of Passion and Murder 4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 8,249 ratings — published 1987 — 14 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer--America's Deadliest Serial Murderer 3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 4,320 ratings — published 2004 — 20 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If You Really Loved Me 3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 3,593 ratings — published 1991 — 11 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Every Breath You Take: A True Story of Obsession, Revenge, and Murder 3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 3,219 ratings — published 2001 — 17 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	And Never Let Her Go: Thomas Capano: The Deadly Seducer 4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 3,049 ratings — published 1999 — 14 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer? 3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 2,932 ratings — published 1995 — 15 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everything She Ever Wanted 3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 2,930 ratings — published 1992 — 10 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bitter Harvest 3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 2,898 ratings — published 1997 — 20 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal 3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 2,510 ratings — published 2007 — 17 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Crime Files (16 books)
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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 and Other True Cases

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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

16 people liked it

“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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July 2012 Monthly Group Read
Remember only one winner!

Genre: True Crime

Deadline to vote will be 6/16/12

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

5 votes, 38.5%

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

5 votes, 38.5%

The Want-Ad Killer by Ann Rule

2 votes, 15.4%

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

1 vote, 7.7%

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

0 votes, 0.0%

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

0 votes, 0.0%

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