A Rip In Heaven – A Memoir of Murder And Its Aftermath

When my parents packed my brother, sister and me into the family van and drove us to Missouri for Spring Break, we brought our entirely imagined city-hardness with us. The hard truth that we were about to learn was that, in fact, we weren’t tough kids at all. Our life in the city had not [...]

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Female Terror: Scary Women, Modern Crimes

An alarming analysis of the rise and rise of female terror. Statistics show that female crime and violence is on the rise, particularly in America where, in 1999, over two million violent female offenders were recorded and the rise was cited as 137%. Women are becoming a major force in both organized crime and terrorism. [...]

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Kiss Me Kill Me

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 [...]

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Cradle of Death

In March of 1949, a healthy baby boy named Richard Noe entered this world. Thirty-one days later, he left it—found dead in his parents’ bedroom in a working-class Philadelphia neighborhood. Over the next nineteen years, all nine of Marie and Arthur Noe’s other children would die—one a stillborn, one in the hospital, and the other [...]

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Cries In the Desert

In the fall of 1999, a twenty-two-year-old woman was discovered naked and bleeding on the streets of a small New Mexico town south of Albuquerque. She was chained to a padlocked metal collar. The tale she told authorties–of being beaten, raped, and tortured with electric shock–was unthinkable. Until she led them to 59-year-old David Ray [...]

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Deadly American Beauty

A Perfect Marriage…
Greg DeVillers was a top biotech executive, and Kristen Rossum was embarking on a career in toxicology at the San Diego Medical Examiner’s office. They seemed to be happily married, living the American dream. But only months shy of their second anniversary, Kristen found her handsome husband dead from a drug overdose-his corpse [...]

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The Doctor’s Wife

For months, the young son of Bart and Jennifer Corbin had told people that he was afraid of violence in their posh, suburban Georgia home. Then, on the morning of December 4, 2004, neighbors found seven-year-old Dalton Corbin at their front door sobbing. Until then no one could have seen what was going on behind [...]

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Never Leave Me

In a quiet community of million dollar homes and shiny SUVs, the Nyce family projected the very image of success. Dr. Jonathan Nyce, an asthma sufferer, had achieved medical breakthroughs that made him rich—and offered hope to countless people. Michelle’s beauty made her an object of desire. And adultery was her husband’s worst nightmare.
Police found [...]

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No Regrets

Prolific and talented true crime author Rule proves her warranted reputation as one of the genre’s leading lights with the 11th entry in her Crime Files series. 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 [...]

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Vulgar Favors: Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace and the Largest Failed Manhunt in U.S. History

Two months before Andrew Cunanan murdered Gianni Versace on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion, Maureen Orth was investigating a major story on the serial killer for Vanity Fair. Now the award-winning journalist and Vanity Fair special correspondent tells the complete story of Cunanan, his unwitting victims, and the moneyed, hedonistic world in which [...]

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