Rachel H. (scrapbooker) reviewed A Rose For Her Grave (Crime Files, Vol. 1) on + 147 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
The centerpiece of this chilling collection is the history of Randy Roth, a "modern-day Bluebeard" who specialized in marrying women and then killing them for insurance and Social Security benefits. Rule ( Everything She Ever Wanted ) traces Roth's crimes thoroughly and does an equally complete job of providing information on the investigative side of the story, such as the difficulties of being a female prosecutor. The remaining shorter cases come from Rule's "archives": a rapist returns after eight years in prison to kill the woman who put him there along with her daughter and a neighbor; a jilted husband hires a female "hit person" to kill his estranged wife; a 13-year-old girl disappears after tending to the mobile home of a friend on vacation; a sadistic killer murders a woman, chops her up and disposes of her dismembered body in a slough; and a young, single woman is strangled by a neighbor pretending to be her protector.
Helpful Score: 2
This 513-page book took me some time to finish. I found the first story, which was 341 pages long, compelling reading; perhaps it should have been published as a stand-alone, because the following five short cases were so short and bland they felt like filler. Ann Rule's Crime Files, #1.
Sarah W. (Sarah13Rose) reviewed A Rose For Her Grave (Crime Files, Vol. 1) on + 35 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Bringing together some of the most infamous cases of the Pacific northwest, a collection of true crime accounts includes that of Randy Roth, a man who married and murdered rich women.
Ann Rule draws a chilling picture of a female sociapath who believes she deserves everything and manipulates and destroyes the lives of all those who love her. The feeling that came over me after reading a few paragraphs,I wanted to reach in and strangle her.
Loved it! If you love Ann Rule's books like I do, this is a must read.
Ann Rule at her best
Great! I love everything Anne Rule!!!
Storys of true murder cases.
Another Ann Rule compilation of true crime stories: as always, well done and interesting.
Christina S. (uniqueindanamom) reviewed A Rose For Her Grave (Crime Files, Vol. 1) on + 16 more book reviews
This is a great book by Ann Rule. The greatest True Crime author around.
This was a great book! One longer story, with shorter true crime stories to follow. I had chills reading it!
Interesting & entertaining if you like real-life crime reporting.
loved it!!!
any of ann rule's books speaks for itself. Its always a good read.
Another good read!
Excellent book!
This was my first Ann Rule book and I wasn't sure I was going to like "true stories" but they are absolutely fascinating. They hold your attention to the very end.
Another good true crime story by Ann Rule. If you like true crime, you'll enjoy this one.
Another great read!
