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    Don't Look Behind You: And Other True Cases
    Don't Look Behind You: And Other True Cases
    Don't Look Behind You: And Other True Cases
    Audiobook11 hours

    Don't Look Behind You: And Other True Cases

    Written by Ann Rule

    Narrated by Laural Merlington

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    I'll be watching you.

    Walking home on a dark night, you hear footsteps coming up behind you. As they get closer, your heart pounds harder. Who is closing in with dangerous intent—a total stranger? Or someone you know and trust? The answer is as simple as turning around, but don’t look behind you…run.

    Ann Rule, who shared her own nerve-jangling account of unknowingly befriending sadistic sociopath Ted Bundy in The Stranger Beside Me, chronicles other fateful encounters with the hidden predators among us in this riveting collection, fifteenth in the bestselling series drawn from her personal files. First in line is a stunning case that spanned thirty years and took a determined detective to four states—ending, finally, in Alaska—where he unraveled not one but two murders. A second case appears to begin and end with the hunt for the Green River Killer, focusing on a Washington State man who was once cleared as a suspect in that deadly chain of homicides. But the millionaire property owner believed he had successfully buried his own murderous past and the awful truth behind his young wife’s disappearance. She vanished soon after she left for a day at the Seattle World’s Fair, and her three small children grew up believing their mother had abandoned them. But one amazing witness remained—the missing woman’s best friend, who heard her last words in a frantic phone call—“He’s coming!”—before the line went dead. Only since Robert Hansen’s suicide has the monster within been revealed.

    In another true story, a petite woman went to a tavern, looking only for conversation and fun. Instead, she met violent death in the form of a seven-foot man who had seemed shy and harmless. You’ll feel a chill as you uncover these and numerous other cases of unfortunate victims who made one tragic mistake: trusting the wrong person—even someone they’d known intimately, or thought they knew.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    ISBN9781469283777
    Don't Look Behind You: And Other True Cases
    Author

    Ann Rule

    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.

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    • 3/5
      If you are familiar with Ann Rule’s Crime Files, you know that this is a compilation of cases. The first one is always very lengthy, normally about half of the book, and the rest are smaller. I can’t really give you a synopsis of the cases, I read this almost a month ago and kind of buzzed through it. What I will say is this, if you like Ann Rule’s writing, and her Crime Files, you will probably like this.For those of you who feel (I’ve read the reviews) that she ‘phoned this in’, this was written rather recently, when her health was failing. I say this because the writing may not be up to her previous works, but still good and readable.

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    • 5/5
      Whooooo!!!! All and such all the and what can you do bubbbbbb a
    • 5/5
      Kept me riveted to the end - classic Ann Rule - a definite page turner! Definitely a five star book!
    • 3/5
      I like true crime books. This one was okay. I would have rated it better but the last two selections were on rape. My own personal history makes reading those selections very difficult. I do like when they get caught though. I especially appreciate good police work.

      One of the selections was on spousal abuse. Also hard to read. I tend to like my true crime a little more police procedural and a little less focusing on the horrific worlds people are forced to live through.
    • 2/5
      This book helped me remember why I am not a fan of her True crime cases.
      The problem is that she writes these books a lot and that her stand alone books come out once every 4 years! or so. I prefer the latter.

      Sorry to Ann Rule fans but I feel she is writing more to earn money now than that her heart is in it.

      Even her first couple of true crime cases books, were so much better.

      The last book she wrote and I loved was Too Late to Say Goodbye. A great read, but then I am talking about a book that was published in 2007! She did write another stand alone last year but I read so many negative reviews, I decided to take a rain check. I will read it one day.

      The thing is, what this author does and what annoys the hell out of me, She did it in Heart Full of Lies and according to all the reviews, also in her last book: In The Still of The Night, that is that she worships the person who was murdered. They are always perfect, have hardly any mistakes, while the perpetrators are all only bad. Don't mind the latter but the making an angel from someone, makes me crazy. Yes even more! ;)

      As someone else mentioned, she also has the tendency (like Stephen King) to write herself in her books. As with this book.

      In the first story she mentions a couple of times that this woman lived in the same town. That her kids were in the same school as the children in this book. (They did not even know the kids!)

      To my annoyance I finished the first story which was very dry and not the best story, to discover this case was not solved at all!

      The other stories were not much better. I will give it 2 stars but do not recommend.
    • 3/5
      Ann Rule needs to hire a good editor. The quality of her books isn't what it used to be. In this one, especially in the main story, she repeats herself quite often.