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Topic: True Crime Readers Here?
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Need2kno
♀ 31342
Member # 31342 |  Posted: 6:09 PM, February 27th (Sunday), 2011 |     |
hello!
Any true crime book readers here or any of you like to read books by.. Patricia Cornwell..
Would like any other recommendations on books along the line of Patricia cornwell 
Me: AC~33
H:~ T ~ 34
2 ~ Daughters
Dday ~ will never know!
Need the strength and control to rebuild my Life for Me and my Kids.
Posts: 51 | Registered: Feb 2011 | From: PA |
Catwoman
♀ 1330
Member # 1330 | | Posted: 7:55 PM, February 27th (Sunday), 2011 | |
Ann Rule would be my recommendation.
If you like crime drama from the legal side, Lisa Scottoline gets my vote.
Cat
FBS: Married 20 years, 2 daughters 25 and 22. Divorced by the grace of GOD.
D-Days: 2/23/93; 10/11/97; 3/5/03
Ex & OW Broke up 12-10
"An erection does not count as personal growth."
Posts: 29825 | Registered: Apr 2003 | From: Massachusetts |
bufffalo
♂ 21854
Member # 21854 | | Posted: 8:10 PM, February 27th (Sunday), 2011 | |
Ann Rule has written several...and i have read most of hers.....i started with the one about Ted Bundy.....(sick bastard)...
DDay 9/25/2008
R started 11/10/08
BH-me
Posts: 5997 | Registered: Dec 2008 | From: Texas |
TodayIsANewDay
1660
Member # 1660 | | Posted: 9:15 PM, February 27th (Sunday), 2011 | |
I just read a really good one-- Strange Piece of Paradise. Nothing much like Patricia Cornwall, somewhat similar to Ann Rule. What was fascinating to me is the "unique" viewpoint of a "true crime" victim trying to solve the "mystery" of who tried to murder her 20 years earlier.
Posts: 413 | Registered: Jul 2003 | From: Washington, DC |
Need2kno
♀ 31342
Member # 31342 | | Posted: 9:55 PM, February 27th (Sunday), 2011 | |
Thanks everyone for the recommendations! I too love ann rule!!
Thanks!
Me: AC~33
H:~ T ~ 34
2 ~ Daughters
Dday ~ will never know!
Need the strength and control to rebuild my Life for Me and my Kids.
Posts: 51 | Registered: Feb 2011 | From: PA |
Need2kno
♀ 31342
Member # 31342 | | Posted: 9:55 PM, February 27th (Sunday), 2011 | |
Yes! Ted Bundy was VERY sick bastard!
Me: AC~33
H:~ T ~ 34
2 ~ Daughters
Dday ~ will never know!
Need the strength and control to rebuild my Life for Me and my Kids.
Posts: 51 | Registered: Feb 2011 | From: PA |
NewAttitude
1030
Member # 1030 | | Posted: 10:28 PM, February 27th (Sunday), 2011 | |
I don't read them but as a bookseller I would recommend Karin Slaughter or Kathy Reichs.
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.
Posts: 58732 | Registered: Jan 2003 |
meaniemouse
♀ 10798
Member # 10798 | | Posted: 11:52 PM, February 27th (Sunday), 2011 | |
Anyone read Bitter Harvest?
Act as if what you do matters. It does. William James
Posts: 2174 | Registered: May 2006 | From: Midwest |
Need2kno
♀ 31342
Member # 31342 | | Posted: 12:12 AM, February 28th (Monday), 2011 | |
Bitter harvest. Is that by ann rule?
Me: AC~33
H:~ T ~ 34
2 ~ Daughters
Dday ~ will never know!
Need the strength and control to rebuild my Life for Me and my Kids.
Posts: 51 | Registered: Feb 2011 | From: PA |
meaniemouse
♀ 10798
Member # 10798 | | Posted: 5:31 PM, February 28th (Monday), 2011 | |
I think so. At least I think that's the name. I have a weird association with that book. 
Act as if what you do matters. It does. William James
Posts: 2174 | Registered: May 2006 | From: Midwest |
Catwoman
♀ 1330
Member # 1330 | | Posted: 5:33 PM, February 28th (Monday), 2011 | |
No, I don't think that's an Ann Rule. Isn't that the one where the woman kills her children in the end? Sick.
Cat
FBS: Married 20 years, 2 daughters 25 and 22. Divorced by the grace of GOD.
D-Days: 2/23/93; 10/11/97; 3/5/03
Ex & OW Broke up 12-10
"An erection does not count as personal growth."
Posts: 29825 | Registered: Apr 2003 | From: Massachusetts |
deeplysad
♀ 16590
Member # 16590 | | Posted: 5:43 PM, February 28th (Monday), 2011 | |
Bitter Havest *is* an Ann Rule book.
She is one of my favorite authors.
Me: BW - I'm much too young to feel this damn old
Him: FWH - Midlife crisis with a pathetic porn wannabe
D-Day: August 2004; Lots of false R until February 2005.
It takes all kinds of kinds....Miranda Lambert
Posts: 3273 | Registered: Oct 2007 | From: So Calif |
meaniemouse
♀ 10798
Member # 10798 | | Posted: 5:54 PM, February 28th (Monday), 2011 | |
Yup, it's Ann Rule. Bitter Harvest. Doctor lights her house on fire to get back at cheating husband (also a doctor). Ends up killing two of her three children instead. Was quite the sensation around these parts for a long time.
Act as if what you do matters. It does. William James
Posts: 2174 | Registered: May 2006 | From: Midwest |
mom of 2
♀ 11214
Member # 11214 | | Posted: 6:12 PM, February 28th (Monday), 2011 | |
I LOVE true crime! Fascinating stuff. To me the bible of true crime is Helter Skelter. 
Here's a great website that combines my love of true crime and celebrity gossip. In fact I've been "cheating" on SI with this site. *sigh* (No offense intended. Don't mean to trigger.)
findadeath.com
Me: BW
Divorced after 23 years of M thanks to XH's truth trickle.
Status: Recovering and healing. It's going to be a long hard road.
Update November 2013: It only took seven years but I finally turned a corner. :)
Posts: 13359 | Registered: Jul 2006 | From: The suburbs of hell |
bbee
♀ 17840
Member # 17840 | | Posted: 6:57 PM, February 28th (Monday), 2011 | |
I enjoyed Zodiac by Robert Graysmith.
This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
All's Well That Ends Well, Act I, Scene 1
Posts: 6660 | Registered: Jan 2008 | From: SE US |
Need2kno
♀ 31342
Member # 31342 | | Posted: 8:16 PM, February 28th (Monday), 2011 | |
Will have to check out Zodiac - Hmmm will have to look on B&N to see the excerpt on bitter harvest - sounds familiar....
Please keep the Suggestions coming.. Thanks so much!
Me: AC~33
H:~ T ~ 34
2 ~ Daughters
Dday ~ will never know!
Need the strength and control to rebuild my Life for Me and my Kids.
Posts: 51 | Registered: Feb 2011 | From: PA |
stefanie
♀ 21139
Member # 21139 | | Posted: 11:57 AM, March 1st (Tuesday), 2011 | |
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Posts: 637 | Registered: Oct 2008 |
hurting2much
♀ 25643
Member # 25643 | | Posted: 12:12 PM, March 1st (Tuesday), 2011 | |
Love true crime; Ann Rule is my favorite. Am reading 501 Most Notorious Crimes by Paul Donnelley. One to two pages of true crimes/criminals. Freaky people out there!
Divorced
Posts: 1110 | Registered: Sep 2009 |
oncehappyred
♀ 28941
Member # 28941 | | Posted: 12:19 PM, March 1st (Tuesday), 2011 | |
Bitter Harvest was a good book.
I worked with the husband and knew the kids.
Very, very sad story on so many levels.
Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soulpower to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.
Dr. Frank Crane
Posts: 196 | Registered: Jul 2010 | From: Missouri |
Fireball72
♀ 20152
Member # 20152 | | Posted: 12:32 PM, March 1st (Tuesday), 2011 | |
I recommend Jack Olsen. He's written a few books that are a bit off the beaten path. "Son" is probably the most frightening (and easy-to-read - while Olsen is a fascinating author, he does tend to ramble off in odd directions on occasion).
If you can find it, also try "A Family Business" by Ken Englade (it's out of print, but still available on Amazon). Warning: the subject matter is a little, uh, gruesome.
XBS - 42 and fabulous :D
Remarried happily in 2013
A relationship is built for two. But apparently, some bitches don't know how to count!
Posts: 602 | Registered: Jul 2008 | From: The Chesapeake Bay |
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