Empty Promises and Other True Cases (Ann Rule's Crime Files) - Softcover

Rule, Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671025333 ISBN 13: 9780671025335

Publisher: Pocket Books, 2001

Synopsis

The best-selling crime writer and author of Kiss Me, Kill Me presents a collection of real-life criminal cases in which the search for love yielded only betrayal, treachery, and murder, including the story of a seemingly idyllic marriage destroyed by drugs, sordid sex, con operations, and violent death. Reissue.

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About the Author

Ann Rule is a former Seattle policewoman and the author of sixteen New York Times bestsellers, including seven Crime Files volumes: Empty Promises, A Rage to Kill, In the Name of Love, the #1 bestseller A Fever in the Heart, You Belong to Me, A Rose for Her Grave, and The End of the Dream; ...And Never Let Her Go, the nationally renowned case of deadly seducer Thomas Capano; Bitter Harvest, the shattering case of Debora Green, a doctor and loving mother driven to lethal acts of vengeance; the #1 bestseller If You Really Loved Me, a chilling chronicle of a millionaire?s murderous secret life; Everything She Ever Wanted, the terrifying story of a sociopathic Georgia belle and her fatal allure; Small Sacrifices, the horrific account of a woman?s homicidal assault on her three young children; The Stranger Beside Me, the fascinating tale of Rule?s dawning horror as she realized her friend and coworker, Ted Bundy, was a serial killer; the #1 New York Times bestseller Dead by Sunset, a nightmarish story of a charismatic man and the women who always gave him what he wanted?sex, money, their very lives; The Want-Ad Killer; The I-Five Killer; The Lust Killer; and the #1 New York Times bestselling novel Possession.

Ann Rule has testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee and regularly presents seminars to law enforcement agencies, including the FBI Academy. She served on the U.S. Justice Department task force that set up VI-CAP (the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program now in place at FBI headquarters) to track and trap serial killers. She lives near Seattle, and can be contacted through her Web page at www.annrules.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671025333
• ISBN 13: 9780671025335
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 524