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Ann Rule


Born
in Lowell, Michigan, The United States
October 22, 1931

Died
July 26, 2015

Website

Genre
Nonfiction, True Crime


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' organ ...more

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Average rating: 4.08 · 329,592 ratings · 17,072 reviews · 144 distinct works • Similar authors
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted...
4.14 avg rating — 104,453 ratings — published 1980 — 85 editions
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Small Sacrifices
4.25 avg rating — 31,092 ratings — published 1987 — 40 editions
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Green River, Running Red
3.99 avg rating — 18,856 ratings — published 2004 — 47 editions
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If You Really Loved Me
4.12 avg rating — 11,903 ratings — published 1991 — 31 editions
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The I-5 Killer
4.01 avg rating — 10,643 ratings — published 1984 — 26 editions
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Bitter Harvest
4.08 avg rating — 10,050 ratings — published 1997 — 33 editions
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Everything She Ever Wanted:...
4.08 avg rating — 9,277 ratings — published 1992 — 41 editions
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And Never Let Her Go: Thoma...
4.12 avg rating — 8,811 ratings — published 1999 — 28 editions
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Dead By Sunset: Perfect Hus...
4.13 avg rating — 8,707 ratings — published 1995 — 31 editions
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Every Breath You Take: A Tr...
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Series by Ann Rule

A Rose for Her Grave and Ot... You Belong to Me and Other ... A Fever in the Heart and Ot... In the Name of Love and Oth... The End of the Dream: The G... A Rage to Kill and Other Tr... Empty Promises and Other Tr...
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“There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.”
― Ann Rule
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“. . .three percent of all males are deemed to be antisocial and without conscience, while only one percent of females seem to lack compassion for others. But the icy manipulations of that one percent are utterly fascinating. No one can be crueler than a woman without a conscience.”
― Ann Rule, Empty Promises and Other True Cases
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“As I write these recollections of women who survived, I hope my readers are taking careful note of why they did.
They screamed.
They fought.
They slammed doors in a stranger's face.
They ran.
They doubted glib stories.
They spotted flaws in those stories.
They were lucky enough to have someone step up and protect them.”
― Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
tags: life-advice, ted-bundy, true-crime
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May BoTM Nominations ~ True Crime ~ 1st Poll
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