A Rage To Kill and Other True Cases: Anne Rule's Crime Files, Vol. 6 (Ann Rule's Crime Files, 6)
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	A Rage To Kill and Other True Cases: Anne Rule's Crime Files, Vol. 6 (Ann Rule's Crime Files, 6)
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Book Description

Acclaimed for her "devastatingly accurate insight" <I>(The New York Times Book Review)</I> into the criminal mind, Ann Rule has chronicled the most fascinating cases of our time in her bestselling Crime Files series. For this sixth stunning collection, Rule has culled from her private files the most-asked-about homicide cases -- riveting accounts of seemingly normal men and women who are compelled d by a murderous rage to suddenly lash out at innocent victims.<P>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 real answers to the haunting question "how could this happen?" -- and expertly constructs the unseen chain of events that resulted in an explosive and shattering tragedy.<P>Included here are nine other sensational cases that illuminate Rule's unique and authoritative view of the human psyche gone temporarily berserk. No one can match Rule's meticulous research, or reveal the motives to murder in such explicit and chilling detail. You may think you know who is safe and who is dangerous; in <I>A Rage to Kill,</I> Ann Rule frighteningly shows that none of us are truly protected from the flashes of irrational violence that can erupt from the killers among us.<P>

Reader Reviews

This is Volume 6 of Ann Rule's Crime Files. Some of Ann Rule's best books have been her "Crime Files" collections, but only when the volume is built around a book-length treatment of a fairly fresh case. The best collection by far has been "Last Dance, Last Chance". This book is somewhat like "Without Pity" in that the cases all seem kind of old. If, like me, you are a big Ann Rule fan who can't get enough, and waits anxiously for each new title, you should definitely get this book. It contains some interesting cases, just none that will knock your socks off. There is not the psychological depth here that we hope for in Ann Rule's very best work, that leaves the reader totally blown away. If you are new to Ann Rule, read one of her truly great books, like "Small Sacrifices", "The Stranger Beside Me", or "Everything She Ever Wanted". Read any of these and you will be hooked on Ann Rule too.