ANN RULE

Written within a cloistered environment to protect sources that have yet to be identified, TOO LATE TO SAY GOODBYE is a chilling portrait of two beautiful, successful women whose murders were made to look like suicides. Jenn Corbin appeared to have it all: two little boys, a posh home in the suburbs of Atlanta, and a husband - Dr Bart Corbin, a successful dentist - who was handsome and brilliant. Then, in December 2004, Jenn was found dead with a bullet in her head, apparently by suicide. Only later would detectives learn that another woman in Dr Corbin's past had been found years earlier with nearly the exact same wound to the head, also ruled a suicide. In TOO LATE TO SAY GOODBYE, Ann Rule - working in cooperation with victims' families, police investigators, and sources from Georgia to Australia - unravels the now-sensational deaths. What emerges is an incredible tale of jealous rage; of stunning evidence that runs from the steamy to the macabre; and of a fateful, mind-boggling coincidence that appears to have motivated the killings.The definitive unravelling of one of the strangest murder investigations of our time, this is the greatest achievement of a truly great writing career.

En novembre 2001, gary ridgway, le tueur en série le plus meurtrier des états-unis, est enfin arrêté. L'assassin de la " green river ", le fleuve vaseux dans lequel il plongeait ses victimes après les avoir violées et étranglées, échappait à la police depuis vingt ans. voilà justement vingt ans qu'ann rule suit pas à pas les avancées de l'enquête, qu'elle réunit des indices sur ridgway et son mode opératoire, qu'elle collecte des informations sur les quarante-huit victimes. qu'avaient en commun ces jeunes filles au physique si différent ? leur fragilité psychologique ? leur existence marquée par des drames ? la réponse se trouve-t-elle au fond de cette rivière rouge sang ?

" On a tué mes enfants ! " hurle Diane Downs en se précipitant aux urgences. Un homme brun aux cheveux longs l'a menacée d'une arme, a tiré sur elle, ses deux filles et son fils. La petite Cheryl succombe peu après à ses blessures, les pronostics médicaux pour Christie et Danny ne sont guère optimistes : ils seront sans doute handicapés à vie. Devant ce crime révoltant, la police se lance à la poursuite du mystérieux suspect. Dans une Amérique transportée d'indignation, seul Fred Hugi, un procureur zélé, ose envisager un scénario improbable, de ceux qui soulèvent le cœur et suscitent l'incrédulité générale. La ravissante, l'adorable Diane Downs serait-elle une Médée des temps modernes, capable de reprendre la vie autant que de la donner ? Ann Rule, ancien inspecteur des forces de l'ordre de Seattle, forme des policiers et collabore à la traque des serial killers. Elle nous entraîne ici dans le gouffre terrifiant des noirceurs de l'âme humaine.

In this riveting, unnerving collection drawn from her personal case files, the bestselling true crime author exposes the shattering violence and lethal obsession behind the most passionate love affairs, revealing the shocking details of crimes committed by both sexes. Original. 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. Ann Rule has contributed to Kiss Me, Kill Me: Ann Rule's Crime Files Vol. 9 as an author. Ann Rule is the author of more than two dozen "New York Times" bestsellers, all of them still in print. A former Seattle police officer, she knows the crime scene firsthand. She is a certified instructor for police training seminars and lectures frequently to law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and forensic science organizations, including the FBI. For more than two decades, she has been a powerful advocate for victims of violent crime. She has testified before U.S. Senate Judiciary subcommittees on serial murder and victims' rights, and was a civilian adviser to the VI-CAP (Violent Crimina