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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
    Audiobook (abridged)5 hours

    Don't Look Behind You: And Other True Cases

    Written by Ann Rule

    Narrated by Laural Merlington

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    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
    ISBN9781469285504
    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.
    • 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.
    • 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.