You Belong to Me and Other True Cases (Ann Rule's Crime Files: Vol. 2) - Softcover

Rule, Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671793543 ISBN 13: 9780671793548

Publisher: Pocket Books, 1994

Synopsis

The author of The Stranger Beside Me presents a second collection of true-crime writings, including the story of Tim Harris, a Florida state trooper who hid bizarre and fatal fantasies behind his badge. Original.

About this title

About the Author:

Ann Rule wrote thirty-five New York Times bestsellers, all of them still in print. Her first bestseller was The Stranger Beside Me, about her personal relationship with infamous serial killer Ted Bundy. A former Seattle police officer, she used her firsthand expertise in all her books. For more than three decades, she was a powerful advocate for victims of violent crime. She lived near Seattle and died in 2015.

From Publishers Weekly:

Rule (Everything She Ever Wanted) upholds her title as maven of the murder tale in this riveting second volume in her anthology series. Like A Rose for Her Grave, this collection consists of one book-length treatment and five shorter case histories from her true-crime files. Meticulous in her coverage, Rule demonstrates her signature, compassionate re-creation, when describing the numerous lives affected when Florida highway patrolman Tim Harris obsessively stalked his wife and then raped and murdered a female driver near I-95. Operating on many levels, it can be read as the psychological profile of a man for whom a wife was simply another possession or as a wonderfully detailed police procedural, complete with frustrating false leads and a brilliantly inspired interrogation scene. In each of the subsequent cases, Rule shifts the focus slightly, concentrating on an entangled forensics puzzle in one, on a two-year missing-person search complicated by a psychic goose chase in another. Rule's considerable reporting skills and hindsight analysis make her a gifted cautionary guide through the hazards of human folly. Yet, as she admits in the chilling "Black Christmas," when a picture-perfect family can be brutally murdered due to an absurd misunderstanding, all the little red flags in the world may mean nothing. Photos not seen by PW. Author tour.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0671793543
• ISBN 13: 9780671793548
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 480