Лучшие книги Энн Рул

Тед Банди. «Харизматичный убийца» с очаровательной улыбкой, «суперзвезда» среди маньяков. На его счету больше 30 доказанных убийств, хотя есть основания считать, что настоящее число переваливает за сотню. В 1970-х Банди был национальной знаменитостью: трансляции судебных процессов по его делам смотрели всей Америкой, а женщины признавались ему в любви и ночевали у зала суда, чтобы занять места рядом с самым красивым обвиняемым. Как получилось так, что обаятельный и успешный студент юридического факультета, которому прочили головокружительную карьеру, стал разъезжать на машине и заманивать в нее юных девушек, безжалостно убивать и…

Для своих соседей Джерри Брудос был мягким и тихим человеком, несмотря на внушительный вид. Для работодателей — опытным и трудолюбивым электриком, мастером на все руки. Для своей жены — хорошим мужем и любящим отцом, несмотря на странный запрет заходить в его мастерскую в гараже и любовь к переодеваниям в женское белье. А для полиции Орегона Джерри Брудос был монстром, убивавшим девушек, фетишистом-коллекционером туфель и белья своих жертв… вместе с их частями тела в огромном морозильнике. Его фетиш стоил жизни молодым женщинам, которых он обманом завлекал в свою мастерскую, пока жены не было дома. Классик литературы тру-крайм Энн Рул рассказывает историю становления знаменитого американского маньяка — от невинного любопытства до извращенных фантазий, от краж со взломом до жестоких серийных убийств.

Остросюжетная история поимки серийного убийцы Рэнди Вудфилда — от «королевы тру-крайма» и автора бестселлера «Убийца рядом со мной» Энн Рул. Жизнь улыбалась Рэнди Вудфилду. Красивый и спортивный, он рос в благополучной семье и стоял на пороге успешной карьеры игрока в американский футбол. Он мог заполучить любую женщину, и многие из них влюблялись в него. Но он хотел большего… Жажда насилия привела его на автостраду I-5 через Калифорнию, Орегон и Вашингтон. Вдоль автомагистрали прокатилась волна жестоких убийц и изнасилований 44 молодых девушек. Когда выжившие жертвы стали давать схожие показания, указывая, что за нападениями стоит…

They were best friends, four talented and charismatic young men who lived charmed lives among the evergreens of Washington state: Kevin, the artist; Steve, the sculptor; Scott, the nature lover and unabashed ladies' man; and Mark, the musician and poet. With their stunning good looks, whip-sharp minds, athletic bodies -- and no lack of women who adored them -- none of them seemed slated for disaster.

Ann Rule's shocking and powerful account of the destructive forces that drove Diane Downs, a beautiful young mother, to shoot her three young children in cold blood.

The author of eight New York Times bestsellers, Ann Rule first won nationwide acclaim with The Stranger Beside Me, about serial killer Ted Bundy. Her Crime Files volumes, based on fascinating case histories, have assured her reputation as our premier chronicler of crime. Now the former Seattle policewoman brings us the horrific account of a charismatic man adored by beautiful and brilliant women who always gave him what he wanted...sex, money, their very lives....

When attorney Cheryl Keeton's brutally bludgeoned body was found in her van in the fast lane of an Oregon freeway, her husband, Brad Cunningham, was the likely suspect. But there was no solid evidence linking him to the crime. He married again, for the fifth time, and his stunning new wife, a physician named Sara, adopted his three sons. They all settled down to family life on a luxurious estate. But gradually, their marriage became a nightmare....

In this gripping account of Cheryl's murder, Ann Rule takes us from Brad's troubled boyhood to one of the most bizarre trials in legal history, uncovering multiple marriages, financial manipulations, infidelities, and monstrous acts of harassment and revenge along the way. Dead By Sunset is Ann Rule at her riveting best.

The shattering crime story that shocked the nation: the Thomas Capano murder case
On a June evening in 1996, 30-year-old Anne Marie Fahey, secretary to the governor of Delaware, vanished without a trace following a restaurant rendezvous with her secret lover of more than two years: Thomas Capano. One of Wilmington's most prominent and respected figures, a millionaire attorney and former state prosecutor, "Tommy" was a charming, softspoken family man. But in the weeks and months that followed Fahey's disappearance, investigators would gradually uncover the shocking truth: Capano was a steely manipulator driven by power and greed -- and capable of brutal murder. In a riveting narrative expertly documented by probing interviews, diary entries, and e-mail correspondence, and with superb insight into the twisted motivations of a killer, Ann Rule chronicles a real-life drama of Shakespearian proportions: ambitions fall, love turns to obsession, family names are tainted, the facade of success crumbles -- and a beautiful but vulnerable young woman pays the ultimate price in a convoluted and deadly relationship.

WAS SHE A SWEET SOUTHERN CHARMER?
OR A COLD-BLOODED KILLER?
For their wedding portrait, petite Pat Taylor and handsome Tom Allanson posed as Rhett and Scarlett. Both came from fine Southern families, and dreamed of the Tara-like plantation where they would grow roses, raise horses, and move in the genteel circles of Atlanta society. Less than two months later, their dream exploded in terror and murder: their beautiful home mysteriously burned to the ground and Tom was convicted of the brutal slaying of his mother and father.
Pat's only brother had died in a puzzling suicide, her grandparents-in-law were poisoned with arsenic, and no one -- from her wealthy employers to her own children -- was safe when Pat Allanson didn't get her way. It took Georgia lawmen more than two decades to stop her for good -- if indeed they have.
In this fascinating account, Ann Rule delivers a tour de force: a whirlwind of misguided love, denial, guilt, and passions out of control; a series of brilliantly manipulated crimes; the bizarre and horrifying tale of two families brought to ruin; and, at the center of it all, the heartless, supremely selfish sociopath whose evil hid behind soft words and gentle manners, but who destroyed -- without mercy -- those who loved her.

Комплект психологических триллеров серии True Crime Story — истории, прогремевшие на весь мир. Откровенные и шокирующие биографии серийных убийц, которые буквально приковывают к страницам. Грегг Олсен, «Не говори никому. Реальная история сестер, выросших с матерью-убийцей» Как жить с тем, что твоя мать — психопатка, которая мучает и убивает людей в твоем собственном доме? Каково это — годами молчать об этом, потому что боишься, что мама сделает это и с тобой? Сестры Сэми, Никки и Тори Нотек знают, что это за чувство. Много лет в их доме происходили страшные пытки и убийства. Несмотря на усилия их матери, девушки не только не сломались, но сумели вырваться из родительского дома и рассказали свою шокирующую историю. Мировой бестселлер о домашнем насилии, вот уже несколько лет занимающий первую строчку в книжных рейтингах жанра true crime.

Historia poszukiwania jednego z najbardziej zuchwałych morderców w historii USA. Ann Rule szczegółowo opisuje pracę śledczą, która ostatecznie po ponad dwóch dekadach pozwoliła ująć Gary’ego Ridgway’a – Mordercę znad Green River.

Jedna z największych zagadek kryminalnych Ameryki, rozwiązana po 20 latach śledztwa i opisana w mistrzowskim stylu przez królową true crime – Ann Rule.

Historia wieloletniego polowania na najbardziej zachłannego seryjnego mordercę, jakiego znała Ameryka. W latach 80. Gary Ridgway w okolicach Seattle w bestialski sposób pozbawił życia 49 kobiet, choć policja twierdzi, że mogło być ich nawet dwukrotnie więcej.

• Jak to możliwe, że przez tyle lat był nieuchwytny?
• Dlaczego wymykał się policji, która cały czas miała go w zasięgu wzroku? Jakie odrażające tajemnice skrywał jego zbrodniczy umysł?
• I przede wszystkim: kim były jego ofiary, dlaczego właśnie one stały się łatwym łupem dla Mordercy znad Green River?

Ann Rule drobiazgowo opisuje dwie dekady intensywnej pracy śledczej: zbierania dowodów, analizowania śladów, typowania sprawców, nie pomija też pomyłek w dochodzeniu. I oddaje hołd ofiarom Ridgwaya, nakreślając szczegółowy portret każdej z nich.

I po raz kolejny przekonuje się, że bestia jest tuż obok niej...

In this provocative and eye-opening classic of investigative journalism, the #1 New York Times bestselling author and "America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews), Ann Rule, explores the nearly twenty-year long search for America's most prolific and horrifying serial killer.

In 1982, the body of Wendy Coffield is discovered floating near the sandy shore of Washington's Green River. Authorities have no idea that this tragic and violent death is

Ann Rule presents her 8th collection of crime stories drawn from her private files - and featuring the riveting case of a fraudulent doctor whose lifelong deceptions had deadly consequences.

Dr. Anthony Pignataro was a cosmetic surgeon and a famed medical researcher whose flashy red Lamborghini and flamboyant lifestyle in western New York State suggested a highly successful career. But appearances, as this shocking insider account of Pignataro's tailspin from physician to prisoner proves, can be deceiving - and, for the doctor's wife, very nearly deadly. No one was safe if they got in his way. With scalpel, drugs, and arsenic, he betrayed every oath a physician makes - until his own schemes backfired. Now, the motivations of the classic sociopath are plumbed with chilling accuracy by Ann Rule. Along with other shocking true cases, this worldwide headline-making case will have you turning pages in disbelief that a trusted medical professional could sink to the depths of greed, manipulation, and self-aggrandizement where even slow, deliberate murder is not seen for what it truly is: pure evil.

An ideal family is targeted for death by the least likely enemy, who plotted their demise from behind bars...A sexual predator hides behind multiple fake identities, eluding police for years while his past victims live in fear that he will hunt them down...A modest preacher's wife confesses to shooting her husband after an argument -- but there's more to her shattering story than meets the eye. These and other true cases are analyzed with stunning clarity in a page-turning collection you won't be able to put down. Included in this volume are stories of a victim burned beyond recognition - spontaneous human combustion? - impossible - and yet no one else seemed to enter or exit; a man who was a woman who was a man, whose con games in a small community led to murder; a "counterfeit priest" who wasn't a priest at all; a lifetime rapist; and the strangest case ever to hit Montana.

From the bestselling true crime author comes the mesmerising story of Debora Green, a beautiful, wealthy, successful doctor and mother of three whose murderous rage and jealousy brings death and destruction to her family.
"Bitter Harvests" the chronicle of a tragedy in the heartland of America, the true story of the disintegration of a marriage and its horrifying consequences. As in her earlier books, Ann Rule takes the reader deep into the psyche of a killer whose behaviour, so twisted and so evil, defies belief. Her book is also the story of the tireless and skilful investigators, forensic scientists and prosecutors who finally brought that killer to justice. Gripping, powerful and ultimately terrifying, Bitter Harvests a vivid re-creation of an unthinkable crime - and a depiction of the unimaginable depths of darkness within the human spirit.

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In perhaps the first true-crime book written at the victim's request Ann Rule untangles a web of lies and brutality that culminated in the murder of Sheila Blackthorne Bellush - a woman Rule never met, but whose shocking story she now chronicles with compassion, exacting detail, and unvarnished candor. Although happily ensconced in a loving second marriage, and a new family of quadruplets, Sheila never truly escaped the vicious enslavement of her ex-husband, multimillionaire Allen Blackthorne, a handsome charmer- and a violent, controlling sociopath who subjected Sheila to unthinkable abuse in their marriage, and terrorized her for a decade after their divorce. When Sheila was slain in her home, in the presence of her four toddlers, authorities raced to link the crime to Blackthorne, the man who vowed to monitor Sheila's every move in his obsessive quest for power and revenge.

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. Distinguished by the former Seattle policewoman's razor-sharp eye for telling detail and her penetrating analysis of the criminal mind, this gripping collection of accounts drawn from her personal files features the twisting case of Randy Roth, who married -- and murdered -- for profit. In her trademark narrative style, Ann Rule weaves a tale that is riveting, enraging, and heartbreaking all at once, and brilliantly chronicles the fateful confluence of a killer and his female victims, as well as the shattering investigation into Roth's heinous crimes.