In the Name of Love

Crime Files #4

by Ann Rule

In the Name of Love is the true story behind the strange disappearance of Jerry Harris, his wife’s unwavering search for the truth, and the chilling truth behind an evil killer. Jerry Harris was a self-made millionaire with many thriving businesses, a happy marriage and lots of friends. There was no way to know that taking on a new business endeavor would ultimately lead to his demise. Rule opens up her personal crime files to investigate the terrifying truth about what greed and jealousy can do to a relationship.

Genres: True Crime, Nonfiction, Crime, Mystery, Short Stories, History, Suspense

432 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Ann Rule was a popular American true crime writer. Raised in a law enforcement and criminal justice system environment, she grew up wanting to work in law enforcement herself. She was a former Seattle Policewoman and was well educated in psychology and criminology.

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.

Rule won two Anthony Awards from Bouchercon, the mystery fans' organization. She was nominated three times for the Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America. She is highly regarded for creating the true crime genre as it exists today.

Ann Rule also wrote under the name Andy Stack . Her daughter is Goodreads author Leslie Rule.

Reviews

[Obsidian · Rating 2 out of 5]

I have been meaning to read this book for years. I always stopped and started it though because the sample did not hold my interest. I have to say, the full book did not either. I think the main problem is that Rule ends up romanticizing Jerry and Susan Harris to the point that neither of them felt real. She also seemed to handwave a lot of people who did have critical things to say about Jerry and how he handled his business. That of course is not to say that he should have been murdered. I just thought that Rule usually does a better job of showing a fuller picture of the victims, murderers, and investigators in her other books than she did in this one.

"In the Name of Love" follows the story of Jerry Harris and how his wife Susan refused to stop investigating who/what was behind his disappearance and murder. Rule begins the book on how the two first met and how Jerry went about "love bombing" Susan. I have to say as other reviewers did, that I just did not like Jerry and felt indifferent towards Susan. She didn't seem to have any life or ambition outside of Jerry and most of the book kept going on about their looks (they were okay people, not super models) and how Jerry spoiled her and why Susan didn't work and wanted to be there for Jerry. It just does not sound like a life that I would ever want to live.

When the book moves to Jerry's businesses and his ideas and how he started to make money the flow slows down. Most of the businesses (outside of the plant and nightclubs) sounded iffy and I thought that Rule did way too much trying to make it seem as if others were doing illegal things and Jerry just had no idea.

When the book moves into Jerry's friends and associates and his constant issues with one of them, you pretty much know who murdered him and why.

After Jerry's disappearance the book slows down again. As a reader you are just ready for the book to get on so to speak.

From there the book becomes boring and painful. Reading about the murderers and their plans and the back and forth and dialogue did nothing for me.

The ending I thought was just a long slow slide of eh okay and just feeling glad that the book was over.

[Megan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was like a masterclass in unreliable narration.

Ann Rule: Jerry Harris was an angel. An ANGEL damn it.

Reading between the lines: Jerry Harris had three ex-wives, a son that barely gets mentioned even though he names multiple businesses and a yacht (??) after his daughter, a fourth wife 18 years younger than he is who, almost immediately after his death, has to declare bankruptcy even though he owned multiple nightclubs.

I don't know why Rule went to such absurd lengths to try and convince the reader he was one of the finest people ever to walk the earth. Slightly shady, flawed people don't deserve to be murdered either? She could have offered a less biased account, is all I'm saying.

Having read more than a few of her books now I think she has a tendency is these later ones to get too close to the victims surviving loved ones; she's too reluctant to speak any ill of them.

[Katherine Addison · Rating 3 out of 5]

*In the Name of Love: Danville, CA, 1987 (the murder of Jerry Lee Harris and the completely batshit insane plot to kill his wife)
*"Murder and the Proper Housewife": Bellevue, WA, 1974 (attempted murder-for-hire, orchestrated by a woman who felt her best friend would be better off with the best friend's husband's trust fund instead of the husband; n.b., the best friend had no idea)
*"The Most Dangerous Game": Index, WA, 1971 (sociopath befriends, stalks, and nearly murders two teenage girls)
*"How It Feels to Die": Seattle, 1979 (abusive stalker ex-husband comes within a fraction of an inch (or a smattering of cc's of blood) of murdering his ex-wife's three roommates)
*"The Killer Who Never Forgot ... or Forgave": Kent, WA, 1966 (wife cheats on husband; husband murders wife and the baby he thinks was fathered by another man--but not the older daughter he's sure belongs to him; tried, convicted, sentence overturned, tried again, convicted again, served thirteen & a half years & was paroled)

Meh.

Mostly, short form is not Ann Rule's A-game. The short pieces (articles instead of books) are flat and kind of aimless. The book-length piece, In the Name of Love, suffered a weird disconnect for me. Rule talks outright about how much she liked Susan Harris and how much she felt she would have liked Jerry Lee Harris, and while I certainly felt sympathy for both of them, I didn't like either of them, and I actually kind of feel I would have disliked Jerry Lee Harris intensely. This is not to say that I think he "deserved" to be murdered or anything of the sort--nor do I think that I need to like the protagonists of a true crime story--but there comes a point as a reader where the more an author tries to make me like a character, the more I set my heels and pin my ears back and refuse to budge. And it makes the experience of reading weird and a little uncomfortable.

Also uncomfortable was her use of "nerd" as a derogatory term to describe the murderer, when (a) even in 1998, "nerd" was a derogatory term only if you were a "jock," Revenge of the Nerds style, and (b) Steve Bonilla is a horrible human being and a complete loser, but he isn't a nerd. He isn't fucking smart enough. (Present tense because, hey, Bonilla is still on death row.)

Basically, Rule and I come from very different social backgrounds, and sometimes the evidence of this in her unexamined assumptions about her readers becomes really jarring.

[Leslye❇ · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5*... Pretty standard Ann Rule book. She really does the most meticulous research for her subjects and approaches the case with a neutral attitude. As with all of her books, this was well-written and easy to read. Not perfect, but I was still incredibly intrigued by the Harris case and the information presented here.

[Rossy · Rating 4 out of 5]

The short stories were great, but the main story was amazing and heartbreaking.
As a lot of reviewers said, it dragged at times, but that's the way it happened in real life and I guess we needed to know all the facts. I felt really sorry for the Harrises, they didn't deserve anything that happened to them and Susan's ordeal was almost never-ending!
It was my first Ann Rule book and I'll definitely read all of her books I can get my hands on.

[Leigh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Was going to give it three stars but the shorter stories were excellent so it got bumped up to 4.
Story one from which the book gets it's title reminded me of another Rule book Bitter Harvest. In that book as in this one victims are pure saintly and never do anything wrong and killers are always pure evil. Granted Steve Bonilla was a bad guy but I see him as being an incredibly stupid criminal and yes probably evil. I mean he literally let his kids ride off in a car with a bomb he could clearly see underneath it. Stupidly evil? Can you be dumb and evil? Jerry Harris was perfect though. Married to a woman 18 years younger he did wonderfully in business, made a fortune was handsome, looked like and sang like Elvis. An angel dammit, a perfect saintly angel. However if you read between the lines, his businesses weren't that great. One was basically a pyramid scheme, he took money from one to keep another going. He had no driver's license and kept driving anyway. He frequently took stupid reckless risks, he didn't always pay his bills or taxes cause whoopsie he's not good with financial stuff and forgot. Sorry? I'm horrible with math and still manage to do these things, you're rich hire a financial manager or something. He was married several times over, not much mention of the other wives except it ended on good terms, had two kids but somehow his daughter was the only one he cared about, naming all his businesses and a yacht after her. I don't have kids but as 1 of 2 siblings I'd be pretty pissed if my dad named everything after my brother and ignored me and I'm sure he'd feel the same if roles were reversed. He didn't leave a will or life insurance despite being so much older than his wife, even I a poor person have a will and life insurance as do a lot of people around me cause no matter who you are in life sooner or later it will catch up with you and you can't hide from it. Despite his wealth his young wife Susan filed for bankruptcy soon after his death. And finally he was described as incredibly handsome like Elvis but didn't want to get into Elvis impersonating. Judging by the black and white pictures of him in the book I'd say he was average looking, slightly overweight nothing that would make women swoon at the sight of him. His widow Susan had blinders on I guess since she was gushingly in love. Some didn't like her because she choose not to work after marrying him. I always cringe when I hear that only cause I personally would never want to be reliant on one person in order to survive especially financially. If something happens to that person you are SOL as is what happens to Susan. After her husband went missing and was found dead Susan struggled with being stalked and harassed by her husband's killer and former friend and lived a life in hiding. I did like Duke the FBI agent who protected Susan, he was actually reasonably handsome and seemed a better man than Jerry. But overall this book barely kept my attention and I almost stopped before the end. But the other stories were classic Rule.
Murder and the Proper Housewife follows Nancy Brooks, neighbourhood gossip who hears her friend complaining about her husband and how he has money and that she hated him. She decides to take matters into her own hands and have him killed on a false premise.
The Most Dangerous Game was the most riveting of the stories. In the early 70s two teen girls run away to a remote cabin in the dead of winter. They come across a draft dodger, actually three technically but one is hiding a dark secret.
How it Feels to Die involves three women who unknowingly take in a roommate with a violent ex husband she's hiding from and it has horrific consequences for them.
The Killer Who Never Forgave or Forgot involves the death of a woman and her literal baby by someone filled with hate and jealousy who oddly ended up escorting the Norwegian monarchy on a trip to America, after he's convicted.
The novella length story was dull and got annoying at points but had some good parts where it picked up but not many. The shorter stories were excellent though and made up for it in the end.

[Maryse · Rating 3 out of 5]

Je crois bien qu'il s'agit du premier documentaire criminel que je lis. Pour une première, je suis bien tombée, puisque le livre a été écrit par l'une des maitres du true crime story, Ann Rule.

J'ai apprécié la narration, la reconstitution minutieuse des faits. L'écrivaine a su me faire développer une sympathie pour les victimes et une vive aversion pour les coupables, de vils abrutis.

Cependant, je suis restée un peu sur ma faim, car la quatrième de couverture promettait un suspense maitrisé par Ann Rule dans chacun de ses ouvrages. À aucun moment dans la lecture, je n'ai ressenti un sentiment d'attente angoissée que suscite le suspense.

Mais au final, ce fut un moment agréable de lecture et j'ai été sincèrement heureuse que Susan puisse poursuivre sa vie avec bonheur.

[Angie · Rating 3 out of 5]

One of weaker books of Rule I’ve read/listened to… I still was engrossed in the tale and wanted to know what the conclusion was.

[Coral · Rating 4 out of 5]

Classic Ann Rule

[Smallrain · Rating 3 out of 5]

I haven’t finished this yet but it is a very perplexing read. The author tries to make Jerry Harris sound almost like a paragon of virtue and says he was gifted by great intuition about people and that is how he knew that Susan was the woman for him. Fine, but that intuition let him down considering he had known his killer for a great many years and had business dealings with him, so why didn’t his intuition let him know that this man was absolutely no good. The author brushes over his having lost his license and then driving without one until his death. His previous three wives have nothing much to say about him one way or another, his son is mentioned just once in passing and yet his businesses often used his daughter’s name. Other reviewers have sounded as if they didn’t care for Susan because she never worked after she met Jerry until after his death. Women should be allowed to work OR stay at home with no judgment. I certainly don’t fault her for staying home and believing he was the love of her life. His business affairs were a great jumble and to me the very worst thing is that he had absolutely no life insurance even though juggling his many ventures was extremely complicated. Rule says he seemed to think he was invincible but he still should have considered what would happened to the woman he apparently so greatly loved if he should die. After all he was 18 years older than her. After reading up to when they are trying to get enough evidence to indict their main suspect I went online to read what other sources said. There isn’t much but the one article I did read made it clear that Rule had shifted what one of the co-conspirators claimed as his *job* title onto the other. Why? Was she just confused or did she do this on purpose? What other mistakes did she make? Also the article doesn’t make Jerry Harris sound quite so wonderful. I am more than a bit disappointed.

[Alisi ☆ wants to read too many books ☆ · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book. I do have to say one thing:

The killer was a complete and utter moron on a level that even *I* have never seen before. Ms. Rule talks at length about Jerry's good luck but I think the killer had much, much better luck.

This is the guy who has (apparently) tried to have several people killed. Has tried to steal. Had a bomb put under a car sp to kill his ex (of which, when the bomb didn't go off, still let HIS OWN CHILDREN ride in the car knowing and seeing the bomb was still in place.) Tried to make a pyramid scheme. Bought the ingredients to make a meth lab (AND WAS CAUGHT WITH STUFF BY THE FEDS.) Used and wasted almost of his families fortune. Ruined every business he tried to run AND skimmed money off of them. And he pretty much always had a job or money when he needed them because of his kind-hearted friend Jerry. And he pretty much walked away scot free from all of this.

And, if that isn't all, when he was convicted of murder, his crimes brought him the chance of getting the death penalty. He had all these ex-wives that he took hits out on and his children come and cry and all but one of the jury members agree to give him the death penalty. So, basically, he had a mistrial at the sentencing portion.

All this and he still probably could've gotten life in prison save for the fact that he then actually tried to put a hit out on Jerry's widow and some of her family.

How fucking stupid are you? The prosecutor railed to the jury to give him death because he'll never stop and his lawyers said he's no criminal mastermind and that he couldn't get up to anything bad in prison.

All of this was admissible on the next sentencing phase and I'm certain no one would be surprised when I say he got the death penalty.

How the hell does this idiot do extremely difficult tasks like dressing himself each morning?

[Marca · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another well-detailed true crime book from Ann Rule. There is one main story, followed by several short tales. The main story is from over 25 years ago: the murder for hire of a man named Jerry Harris who was a force in the business world in California in the 1970’s and 1980’s until his murder in 1987. His wife Susan never gives up hope that his killer will be arrested. Susan, and nearly everyone else who knew Jerry, knew who killed Jerry, either directly or indirectly, but there is no evidence that prosecutors can use. Steve Bonilla was a hanger-on wannabe of Jerry’s. Jerry was nice to Steve and occasionally let Steve invest in some of Jerry’s businesses. (Steve’s mother had some money.) Jerry usually did not need Steve’s mother’s money, but Steve’s mother would give Jerry money to keep Steve occupied. Steve, however, is an evil sociopath seething with envy at everything that Jerry has. Steve eventually arranges for Jerry’s death, and then tries to take all Jerry’s businesses away from Susan. Susan holds Steve at bay with lawsuits, but this just causes Steve to escalate. The book tells the story of a nice guy with a nice wife who loves him whose lives are turned upside down by the type of evil the reader prays never to encounter. Susan spent over a decade dealing with this evil in one way or another. Rule does a good job of detailing what Susan went through. The book was published in the late 90’s. I’d be interested to know where the main players are now.

[No-Genre-Unread · Rating 5 out of 5]

Anne Rule Rules! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ I Love all of her books. I Love how she's so thorough with not just the details about the crimes, the investigations, and the trials, but also with the biographical life details about the criminals and victims. Her books are not for the impatient reader with A shorter attention span Who just wants to get to the meet and potatoes of how the murder was done, and who done it. Especially not this book.
I'd read some of the negative reviews complaining about how this book had too much back story on Jerry and Susan. I guess I'm weird, because I Love back stories, in both fiction and non-fiction. Anne Rule made me feel like Jerry and Susan, Jerry's scuzzy friend, Steve, and just about everyone else involved were people I know. The same goes for the other true crime stories afterward.
However, The first story felt kind of out of place among The other much shorter stories. It was long enough to be a whole separate book. Anal retentiveness aside, each true crime was a thrilling, awesome, addictive, and so very three dimensional read.
Love you, Anne Rule, rest in writerly peace. 💐👼🏾

[Rebecca Huston · Rating 4 out of 5]

Five tales of cold-blooded murder. The title tale is the longest, going into the disappearance of Jerry Harris, a self-made millionaire with successful businesses and a lovely wife, Susan. When Jerry seemingly vanished into thin air, Susan never gave up hope -- or determination. It would take eight long years to see justice served, and the tale is a very twisted one indeed. The other four are much shorter, all of which have the idea of love, be it selfish, obsessive or the lack of it completely. Two inserts of black and white photographs help to give faces to the story. Overall, this gets about four stars from me.

For the longer review, please go here:
http://www.epinions.com/review/In_the...

[DAISY READS HORROR · Rating 2 out of 5]

I lost this book, or rather misplaced it. If I ever get around to finding it I will finish it since I was 75% done. The main story in the book was long but somewhat interesting. Not Rule's best work. :/

[iasa · Rating 2 out of 5]

Normally I enjoy Ann Rule but this outing was too drawn out for me. 100 pages could have easily been edited without losing any of the information or atmosphere Rule was trying to communicate.

[Christina McLain · Rating 3 out of 5]

Though the stories in this collection of real life crime were interesting, they were told in such a dry way as to be dull and boring. I honestly wanted to like this book and I would love to read The Stranger Beside Me, the story of Rule's friendship with serial killer Ted Bundy, which I am certain will be riveting but this...not so much . The most interesting aspect of the main story is how gullible the victim Jerry was, and how his wife was tomented and terrorized by his killer for years before she finally got justice and peace for herself which,I guess,, says something about the justice system in North America.

[Desiree Vollans · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars

[Nancy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is another collection of short, but true, murder stories accompanied by one longer length piece. The longer one is about the murder of Jerry Harris, a happily married man who had just bought his dream house with his wife. He had a great career running several nostalgia-themed restaurants in the California area and was poised to turn them into a national chain. Unfortunately someone was jealous of him and everything he had accomplished and wanted it for himself. Someone who seriously under-estimated one widow's quest for justice.

I liked this book, as I do all of Ms. Rule's books. The only regret I have is that I have read all of her titles now.

[Jeannie Walker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ann Rule is a mastermind when it comes to writing gripping stories about the dark underside of killers, abusers and the like.
Unfortunately, there are criminal minds that could be in our world who are driven by jealousy and have a wish to do evil to you or your loved ones.
While reading "In the Name of Love", I was reminded of the chilling way my ex-husband was murdered. He too, was a self-made millionaire. He was murdered because of jealousy and greed. That was a new beginning for me in my un-wavering search for the truth. It took me years to get a small sliver of justice in helping put one of the suspects in prison for her part in this heinous murder. However, I am still in pursuit of justice, as a couple of suspects have still not been made to pay for their part in this arsenic poisoning murder. A toxicologist I spoke with told me that a death from arsenic is the most painful death anyone could suffer, and was worse than dying in the electric chair or gas chamber. My daily prayer and hope is that these hard-hearted, wicked people do no kill someone else.
I believe the public should be made aware that there are pathological killers, abusers and the like roaming - looking for their next victim. We need to be aware of these dangers, so that we do not unwittingly become a victim of crime.
That being said, I think any book written by Ann Rule is a book that will leave the reader with unforgettable accounts of the crime and the people involved. Your enemy could be as close to you as the person you believe is your friend.
Jeannie Walker (Award-Winning Author)
Fighting the Devil: A True Story of Consuming Passion, Deadly Poison, and Murder
I Saw the Light - A True Story of a Near-Death Experience
Thomas, The Friendly Ghost - A True Story of Ghostly Encounters
Forever in My Heart - A True Story of Coincidence and Destiny
The Rain Snake: A Children's Color Illustrated Book of the miracles of prayer and love

[Roger · Rating 2 out of 5]

How this book is rated at 4 1/2 stars bewilders me.........but I guess that's just my opinion. I believe that I have read every book Ann Rule has written and although some were better than others (largely dependent on the particular case) and some were not as good as others. This book, let's face it folks, Ann Rule is getting old is one of her worse. This book should be titled, "The Jerry and Susan Harris and Steve Bonilla Story" because essentially that is what it amounts to. I would say three quarters of this book was devoted to the story of Jerry and Susan Harris - when and where they were born, where they were raised, how they met and how much in love they were. To condense this even further, it amounted to the "Jerry Harris Story". Tirelessly, tediously Rule takes the reader on a ride down Jerry Harris lane...........almost the point of one saying to ones self, "Com'on get to the murder. I know there's got to be a murder somewhere in this story, let's get off the subject of glamorizing and immortalizing Jerry Harris. Ok, ok, I know Jerry Harris is an good, honest, loving, ambitious guy but enough is enough. (Do you think I'm terrible in being so crass and heartless?) Well just get this book and see how patient you are after about 275 pages.

The other one-quarter of the book explains what a loser this Steve Bonilla is.........and he is but he is a loser who finally becomes tired of being a loser and takes matters into his own inept hands and of course, becomes an even bigger loser. Susan Harris who in the seven some years of her marriage to Jerry Harris worships the ground Jerry walks on and is almost 100% dependent on him - not so much for financial reasons but rather for love and companionship. After her husband's tragic death, Bonilla will discover that Susan is not the "pushover" he expected her to be.

There's not much more I can say (I'm sure other reviewers can be more prolific). Two stars, sorry Ann. You are a great writer of true crime but a time comes when we just can't do the things we used to be able to do when we were younger. (I don't climb up on the roof anymore).

[Jerry Jares · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an abridged version of some of Ann Rule's cases (the author, when she was a police detective). This is Book 4 of ANN RULE'S CRIME FILES. Generally, I avoid abridged anything, because I want to read exactly what the author has to say. However, this set of 7 disks came my way through the local library's purge.

1) JERRY HARRIS is a self-made California tycoon who never meets a stranger. He's 44 years old and is married to Susan (his 4th wife), and his soul-mate. He suddenly disappears on an October night in 1987. The story is quite involved and lasts a bit more than 5 tapes (this is a talking book). The story gradually grew on me; at first, it was ponderous and very slow moving. For an abridged book, it was surprising how many repetitions there were in this story.

2) THE HOUSEWIFE is about an oddball young man (he was seriously abused as a child) who attempts to kill a professor. It is a unique story about kindness that turns back to bite the Samaritan.

3) THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME is about two girls (Mave and Carrie) who escape from their parents and take refuge in some Washington state cabins. At the same time, a young man ('Al') escaped from military boot camp and decided to hide out in some of those same Washington cabins. Two other young men, conscientious objectors, were staying in a cabin, legally rented, hoping to help others avoid fighting in Vietnam (by helping them to quietly cross into Canada).

Al convinced the two young girls to move deeper into the woods. When the girls became frightened, they started walking back to town. Thus ensues a 24-hour nightmare. Mave keels over into the snow; she's been shot.

Except for the first story, that seems to go on forever, the other stories are interesting and move along quickly.

[Mirjam Penning · Rating 4 out of 5]

The main and first story is about a man named Jerry Lee Harris, an entrepeneur. The title of his story is also the title of the book. He seems a likeable jovial guy, who is succesful in life. He and his wife have quite an age difference, but it works out. I can relate to that. My partner is older than me as well, but age tend to fall away when it just clicks between two people. Jerry and Susan have a wonderful life, but one day he just doesn't come home. They find him later, but not alive. He's murdered. If you read who did it, you can't help but want to slap that person around real hard. The ungrateful 'bugger'.

Other stories in the book are:
2. Murder and the proper housewife
3. The most dangerous game
4. How it feels to die
5. The killer who never forgot..or forgave

The story of this book that stuck with me is 'the most dangerous game'.
It's about a guy who pretends to be a protective friend of two teenagers, but turns out to be their enemy. Hibernate in the mountais suddenly wasn't so fun anymore for these adventureous girls. The names of the people involved are changed. I tried to find out their real names, to be able to read newspaper articles about this horrifying event, to no avail. That bugs me. Who knows one day I can shed light on the name of the perpetrator and where he's today.

[Boremomsn.Com · Rating 2 out of 5]

The title story 'In the Name of Love' would have been a much better story if about 100-120 pages had been cut out. As is, it is a bloated boring read for the first 100 pages as far too much back story is brought out. Ok, their marriage was great, the wife was dedicated. It doesn't take that much back story to bring that out. All through the book, certain areas are over explained. It detracts from the story. Rule is a better writer, indeed, she has told a better story. As for the remaining shorts, they are okay reads. If you enjoy true crime, there are worst reads out there. If you enjoy Rule, she has written better books to read than this one. Read at your own risk.

[Angela Watts · Rating 5 out of 5]

Friends

Greed, hate and jealousy. A good man, loving family. A friend literally wanting to become that person and not stop at anything to be him! Yet to scared to do it himself. Trust your gut feelings about a person. Their not wrong!! Ann Rule brings you right into the lives and story!

[Dorsi · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is my 2nd Ann Rule book. I didn't like it quite as well as the first book but I liked it nonetheless. I listened to this one audio style It was read by Laural Merlington and she does a fine job. 3.75 stars in my ever so humble opinion.

[Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of Ann Rule's better books. The incredible need for vengeance by the antagonist is hard to fathom. That is, it's hard to fathom anyone being that cruel. A real case for the existence of evil in human beings.

[Cyndy Allen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another excellent Ann Rule book!

I don’t know how I missed this book, I thought I read everything by Rule. Thrilled to have found this. Couldn’t put it down, of course. Ann Rule RULES the true crime genre.

[Aysia · Rating 3 out of 5]

As usual Ann Rule is the Queen of True Crime Novels

[Beth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyable tales by Ms. Rule. The first story dragged on a bit, but once it took off, I enjoyed the telling. The last 4 could have been a bit longer but were interesting none the less.