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Pub. Date
1990, c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
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Seventeen-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed forever when death threats to her father, a witness in a federal case, force her family to go into hiding under assumed names and flee the pursuit of a hired killer.
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Ann Rule's crime files volume 1
Pub. Date
[1993]
Description
With this gripping true crime anthology, the first in a 5-book series, former Seattle policewoman and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule turns her unflinching eye on compelling true crime accounts from her personal case files.
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Ann Rule's crime files volume 6
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Torn from the headlines, here is the case that shocked a nation: the Seattle city bus ride that turned to mayhem and murder at the hands of a gunman. Ann Rule unmasks the forces that drove quiet, clean-cut Silas Cool to shoot the driver, causing the bus to plunge off the Aurora Bridge into an apartment building. The catastrophe left three dead -- including Cool -- and dozens injured. While the scene unfolds as in a terrifying movie, Rule finds very...
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Ann Rule's crime files volume 7
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
A collection of true crime stories from the personal files of author Anne Rule.
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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. Slow, deliberate murder is not seen for what it truly is: pure evil.
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Ann Rule's crime files volume 9
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
An absorbing portrayal of true-crime lovers who kill and the men and women who are their victims.
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Former Marine sergeant and judo instructor Roland Pitre Jr. claimed it was all an elaborate plan to win back his wife's love--it wasn't supposed to end with her dead body in the trunk of a car. Nearly twenty years later, he acknowledged that he had hired someone to kill his estranged wife in 1988, though his alleged excuse for why a monstrous "mistake" happened is as shocking and convoluted as the crime itself. Eventually, he was charged with first-degree...
10) Body of evidence
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Pub. Date
2006.
Description
Follow CSI Wes Burton to 51 different crime scenes, collect the evidence along with him, and try to solve each brief mystery before he does. Includes the solution at the end of each case.
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Ann Rule's crime files volume 11
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Two-thirds of the book is devoted to one case, the disappearance of an elderly sea captain from his quiet community of Lopez Island in Washington State. As with many of the stories recounted in previous volumes, Rule succeeds in pulling the reader into a mystery that was largely of local concern. With a novelist's skill, she brings to life the missing Norwegian mariner, Rolf Neslund, and his difficult marriage to Ruth Myers, who became the prime suspect...
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Ann Rule's crime files volume 12
Pub. Date
2008
Description
A compilation of real-life crime stories includes the tales of a counterfeit priest, a serial rapist, a victim burned beyond recognition, and a con artist whose activities lead to murder.
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Ann Rule's crime files volume 14
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
A collection of seven true stories about unsuspecting victims of violent crimes who died at the hands of a spouse, lover, family member, or helpful stranger.
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Ann Rule's crime files volume 14
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Explores cases of people killed by trusted spouses, lovers, family members, or helpful strangers who turned on them, including the murder of Chuck Leonard, a middle school counselor who was an odd mix of family man and wild man.
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Ann Rule's crime files volume 15
Description
Rule chronicles fateful encounters with the hidden predators among us in this riveting collection. Uncover cases of unfortunate victims who made one tragic mistake: trusting the wrong person-- even someone they'd know intimately, or thought they knew.
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In July 2011, billionaire Jonah Shacknai's Coronado, California, mansion was the setting for two horrifying deaths only days apart--his young son's plunge from a balcony and his girlfriend's ghastly hanging. What really happened? Baffling questions remain unanswered. Rule looks at the closed cases through the eyes of a relentless crime reporter. The second probe began in Utah when Susan Powell vanished in a 2009 blizzard. Her controlling husband,...