Kiss Me, Kill Me: Ann Rule's Crime Files Vol. 9

Ann Rule

Dec 2004 · Ann Rule's Crime Files Book 9 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

The dark side of love is no fairy tale....

And while we may like to believe that crimes of the heart only victimize those who aren't careful, this page-turning collection of must-read accounts will convince you otherwise. America's #1 true-crime writer, Ann Rule reveals how lovers become predators, how sex and lust can push ordinary people to desperate acts, and how investigators and forensics experts work to unravel the most entangled crimes of passion. Extracting behind-the-scenes details, Rule makes these volatile relationships utterly real, and masterfully re-creates the ill-fated chains of events in such cases as the ex-Marine and martial arts master who seduced vulnerable women and then destroyed their lives...the killer whose calling card was a single bloodred rose...the faithless wife who manipulated and murdered without conscience...the blind date that set the stage for a killer's brutality...and more. In every case, the victim -- young and innocent or older and experienced -- unknowingly trusted a stranger with the sociopathic skill to hide their dark motives, until it was too late to escape a web of deadly lies, fatal promises, and homicidal possession.

Ratings and reviews

GOODREADS ANN RULE IS A MASTER OF TELLING AND WRITING ABOUT TRUE CRIMES. PROBABLY GOING TO BUY ANOTHER BOOK. DONNA J!

True crime short stories. A good book, but all the events are from twenty years or more ago.

Excellent. Ann Rule is the #1 true crime author that ever lived. I love you Ann... Always.

About the author

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.