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Ann Rule is a former Seattle policewoman and she lives near Seattle. She is the author of twenty New York Times bestsellers, and winner of the Anthony Award for Best True Crime. Ann Rule has testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee. She regularly presents seminars to law enforcement agencies, including the FBI Academy, as well as district attorneys and victim support groups. She has served on the U.S. Justice Department task force that set up the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (VI-CAP) now in place at FBI headquarters to track and trap serial killers. You can visit her website at www.annrules.com.

Bestsellers include
If You Really Loved Me, the chilling chronicle of a millionaire’s murderous secret life
Small Sacrifices: A True Story of Passion and Murder, the horrific account of a woman’s homicidal assault on her three young children .
Everything She Ever Wanted, her terrifying book about a sociopathic Georgia belle and her fatal allure.

Other titles include the bestsellers Dead by Sunset, The Want-Ad Killer, The I-5 Killer, Lust Killer, Possession

She is also the author of
Every Breath You Take, the only true-crime book written at the request of the murder victim. A woman ensnared by the violent obsessions of her millionaire ex-husband;
And Never Let Her Go, the nationally renowned case of deadly seducer Thomas Capano, which was made into a CBS miniseries;
Bitter Harvest: A Woman’s Fury, a Mother’s Sacrifice, which unravels the shattering case of Debora Green, a doctor and loving mother driven to lethal acts of vengeance.
Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer–America’s Deadliest Serial Murderer
The Stranger Beside Me, the unnerving chronicle of Rule’s dawning horror as she realizes her friend and coworker Ted Bundy is a serial killer;
Heart Full of Lies: A True Story of Desire and Death

Ann Rule’s Crime Files books have delivered the very best in true crime reading since A Rose for Her Grave, first in the acclaimed series, made its debut. In this first gripping true crime anthology, Ann Rule, with her policewoman’s razor-sharp eye for telling detail and her penetrating analysis of the criminal mind, has created compelling true crime accounts from her personal case files. She examines one of the most infamous cases in the Pacific Northwest - that of Randy Roth, a man who married - and murdered - for profit, and the women who were his victims.

In her trademark narrative style, Ann Rule weaves a tale that is heartbreakingly riveting and enraging. She brilliantly chronicles the shattering investigation into Roth’s heinous crimes, she delves into the personalities and backgrounds of the criminals, their families, and the circumstances that brought about the crimes. Packed with honest details, clear cut characters, and unravelled secrets, this is a unique collection of true crime stories in that unique style that makes her books such extraordinary page-turners.

She has written eleven Crime Files volumes:
Last Dance, Last Chance;
Empty Promises;
A Rage to Kill;
The End of the Dream;
In the Name of Love;
A Fever in the Heart;
You Belong to Me;
A Rose for Her Grave.
Kiss Me, Kill Me: And Other True Cases
Worth More Dead and Other True Cases,
No Regrets and Other True Cases:

Ann Rule, has been described by John Saul as “the undisputed master crime writer of the eighties and nineties and it seems that she’ll be writing well into the naughties as well. She has two new books coming called Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder: And Other True Cases and Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal. They are due out around Christmas 07.

If you like true crime and would like to listen to such books rather than read them, you can a range of true crime titles from this Online Audio Bookseller. Audio books are a great way to make time fly while on long car trips.

Green River, Running Red by Ann Rule on Audio

Finders Keepers - Mark Bowden

My Life Among the Serial Killers - Helen Morrison

Portrait of a Killer - Patricia Cornwell

The Prosecuters - Gary Delsohn