Empty Promises: And Other True Cases - Hardcover

Rule, Ann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786233141 ISBN 13: 9780786233144

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2001

Synopsis

Presents a collection of real-life West coast criminal cases in which the search for love yielded only betrayal, treachery, and murder, including the story of a marriage destroyed by drugs, sordid sex, con games, and violent death.

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From the Back Cover:

In this unnerving collection drawn from her personal crime files, "America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews) Ann Rule brilliantly dissects the convoluted love affairs that all too often end in violence.

Expertly analyzing a shocking, headline-making case, Rule unmasks the deadly motives inside a seemingly idyllic marriage: a beautiful young wife, a rising star in America's top-ranked computer corporation, and a prosperous husband, the scion of a family building business. With an adorable son and a gorgeous home, the couple seemed to have it all. But a furtive evil permeated their days and nights, dragging them into a murky world of drugs, sordid sex, and con operations. In this realm, one of them would prove to be a virtual innocent, the other a manipulator with no conscience. Sudden, violent death brought their charade of a fairy-tale romance to a tragic end -- with a brutal crime that might never have come to light were it not for the stubborn detectives and prosecutors whose fight for justice spanned an entire decade.

EMPTY PROMISES recounts several other cases where the search for love brought only lies and betrayal -- a cautionary primer, perhaps, for those who trust too much too soon. Powerful because they strike so close to home, the cases in EMPTY PROMISES will leave readers shaken by the realities of love gone terribly -- and fatally -- wrong.

About the Author:

Ann Rule, a former Seattle policewoman, has written seventeen books and more than a thousand articles on criminal investigations and the criminal antisocial personality. She can be contacted through her Web page at www.annrules.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0786233141
• ISBN 13: 9780786233144
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 703