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Ann Rule (1935–2015)

Autor von The Stranger Beside Me

64+ Werke 19,709 Mitglieder 333 Rezensionen Lieblingsautor von 72 Lesern

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Ann Rule was born on October 22, 1931 in Lowell, Michigan. She received a bachelor's degree from the University of Washington in creative writing, with minors in psychology, criminology and penology. She began writing for magazines including True Detective, Master Detective, Inside Detective, Front mehr anzeigen Page Detective, and Office Detective in 1969. During her lifetime, she wrote more than 30 books including The Stranger Beside Me; Green River, Running Red; Practice to Deceive; Ann Rule's Crime Files series, and Lying in Wait. She died on July 26, 2015 at the age of 83. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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(eng) Ann Rule has also written books under the pen name Andy Stack.

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Werke von Ann Rule

The Stranger Beside Me (1980) 2,861 Exemplare
Green River, Running Red (2004) 1,231 Exemplare
Small Sacrifices (1987) 1,129 Exemplare
Bitter Harvest (1999) 777 Exemplare
Dead by Sunset (1995) 734 Exemplare
Wenn du mich wirklich lieb hast (1991) 693 Exemplare
Alles, was sie sich erträumte (1992) 639 Exemplare
The I-5 Killer (1984) 525 Exemplare
Last Dance, Last Chance (2002) 475 Exemplare
Empty Promises (2001) 451 Exemplare
Lust Killer (1983) 395 Exemplare
Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder (2007) 387 Exemplare
The Want-Ad Killer (1983) — Autor — 361 Exemplare
No Regrets (2006) 336 Exemplare
Practice to Deceive (2013) 305 Exemplare
Mortal Danger (2008) 305 Exemplare
But I Trusted You (2009) 283 Exemplare
Possession (1983) 256 Exemplare
Lying in Wait (2014) 181 Exemplare
Danger in the Dorm [Kindle] (2018) 19 Exemplare
Beautiful America's Seattle (1700) 12 Exemplare
Mind Games (1984) 7 Exemplare
The Stranger Beside Me: The Ted Bundy Story [2003 TV movie] (2003) — Original book — 3 Exemplare
Jerry Harris Case (1999) 3 Exemplare
Cruel Sacrifice 2 Exemplare
Too Late to Say Goodbye [2009 TV movie] — Autor — 2 Exemplare
Pequeños sacrificios (1996) 2 Exemplare
Everything She Ever Wanted [2009 Television Mini Series] — Based on the book by — 1 Exemplar
Withoiut Pity 1 Exemplar
Blick in den Abgrund (1998) 1 Exemplar
Beauty of Seattle (1993) 1 Exemplar

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Gebräuchlichste Namensform
Rule, Ann
Andere Namen
Stack, Andy (pseudonym)
Rule, Ann Stackhouse
Stackhouse, Ann Rae (birth name)
Geburtstag
1935-10-22
Todestag
2015-07-26
Geschlecht
female
Nationalität
USA
Geburtsort
Lowell, Michigan, USA
Sterbeort
Burien, Washington, USA
Todesursache
multiple health issues, including congestive heart failure
Wohnorte
Renton, Washington, USA
Ausbildung
University of Washington (BA|Creative Writing|1953))
Berufe
police officer
writer
Beziehungen
Rule, Leslie (daughter)
Organisationen
True Detective
Agent
Joan Foley
Joe Foley
Hinweis zur Identitätsklärung
Ann Rule has also written books under the pen name Andy Stack.

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Adult fiction novel in Name that Book (November 2015)

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I remember a time when I would tear through an Ann Rule like nobody's business. I don't know what has happened to her writing. This book felt like a chore to me and I was glad to see it end. Also, I don't care for her needlessly inserting herself into a story. In one of the stories, she mentions REPEATEDLY that her children attended school with the missing woman's children. This is NOT relevant, IMO, especially since she didn't know the missing woman, the children weren't friends, and she didn't even know anything about the missing woman's case until years later. I guess I just became less of a fan after reading The Stranger Beside Me and saw how hard she tried to make a story where there really wasn't one. I want to like her books, I do. But, she needs to write the stories and not insert herself into them.… (mehr)
 
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thatnerd | 9 weitere Rezensionen | Mar 2, 2024 |
I pretty much said all I needed to say about this book through the status updates I gave while reading it. It feels like it took forever to finish reading this book. While there were a few interesting parts, for the most part, the book just seemed to drag by. It got tiresome reading about her conflict over Bundy's guilt and the bits and pieces of her personal life. She came across as being too sympathetic toward Bundy and did not give nearly enough information about the victims. It ticked me off at one point in the book when she went to Florida and said that "Ted could never go home again." Well, neither could his victims - what about them? I love reading Ann Rule's books, but this one was a disappointment, because she just came across as a "Ted groupie" to me, except toward the very end when she finally stated her opinion on his guilt.… (mehr)
 
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thatnerd | 70 weitere Rezensionen | Mar 2, 2024 |
This was definitely not one of Ann Rule's better books, but I still did like a few of the stories.
 
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thatnerd | 8 weitere Rezensionen | Mar 2, 2024 |
"If anything ever happens to me, find Ann Rule and have her tell my story." This is what Sheila (Blackthorne) Bellush told her sister, Kerri one day. Sheila was so terrified of her ex-husband, Allen, that she and her family fled to Florida. Sadly, he found her and thus we have this book.

Sheila and Allen Blackthorne married young and had 2 daughters. Their marriage was very tumultuous and Allen was very domineering and controlling. They eventually got divorced but he fought her tooth and nail over custody for the girls. He even made her move into a house down the street from him. She finally met Jamie Bellush and they got married and they ended up having quadruplets through IVF. She thought all her troubles with Allen were behind her - he was remarried as well; however, he had neighbors spying on Sheila and Jamie and reporting back to him. Eventually, Sheila and her family fled to Florida but Allen still found her and had orchestrated plans (from Texas) for her to be murdered.

The book goes through the history of both parents of Allen and Sheila as well as their grandparents. I felt that this was a bit too much but if it was to show how their upbringing led them to the way they were, I get it. There is a list in the beginning of the book of all the "players" - from the grandparents to Allen and Sheila to friends and eventually to the law enforcement folks investigating the murder.

it also delves into the trial of Allen Blackthorne and the verdict, which occurred in 1999.

All in all, it was a well-written story but could have done without the deep dive into the familial lineage.
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Cathie_Dyer | 7 weitere Rezensionen | Feb 29, 2024 |

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