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Title: A Fever in the Heart : Ann Rule's Crime Files, Volume III by Ann Rule ISBN: 0-671-79355-1 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Another one from the heart
Comment: My enthusiasm at reading another book by Ann Rule was well placed.
Ms. Rule has an uncanny ability to transport me to the very spot she is writing about.
All of a sudden I am in Yakima, Washington. I can smell the winter scents in the air as the tension mounts in this story of a romantic triangle that proved to be fatal.
With an ease that Ms. Rule is well known for, I am swept along the story line. I follow her not knowing where she will take me, but trusting all will become clear.
What is true skill on her part is that in the beginning the reader doesn't know who did what - only that this is a true life story of betrayal and eventually, murder.
As the tension mounts even more, Ms. Rule delivers the details in a fashion akin to a balloon ride.
Before I know it I am, unfortunately, finished with her story. My balloon landed and now I have to wait for her to write another.
Ms. Rule writes with such thought and obvious deliberation that it is quite easy to trust her work will always be interesting and compelling.
As long as she continues to write, she will stay on the top of my favorite author list
Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting cases, merely adequate writing
Comment: This is the first Ann Rule book that I've read, although I've read quite a few other true crime books. Rule is a better writer than the average true-crime author; she is not, however, a particularly great writer overall. She does have a keen eye for interesting cases -- the title case, for example, is proof positive that truth can often be far stranger than fiction.
However, that story (the longest in the collection) suffers because of Rule's poor structuring techniques. New characters are introduced halfway through the piece, and she puts the narrative in reverse to catch them up to the chronology of events. I could tell at least 100 pages before the end of the story the rudiments of what happened; Rule holds the sequence of events back as though it were a mystery. Ultimately, she sacrifices any real effort to get inside the heads of the victims, the criminals, or the survivors, in favor of dry recitations of days in court and redundant scene setting.
I certainly won't forego checking out Rule's other books, but this one certainly doesn't match any hype she's been given.
Rating: 3
Summary: curious but overall unengaging true crime stories...
Comment: "A Fever In The Heart" is the third installment of Ann Rule's true crime files. Nearly all these true crime collections are a hodgepodge of stories, often unrelated, and too often unengaging. "A Fever In The Heart" is ranked firmly in the middle; it is neither terrible, nor very good.
The main story is a curious one where "male bonding" takes an ugly turn. The devotion between a wrestling coach and his underlings go WAY behind the norm. This leads to a very unusual murder mystery. However Ann Rule doesn't bother to sweat the details as she has done in her better books; it has a Reader's Digest feel about it. And unfortunately, the half dozen or so other shorter stories which follow the main story are little more than gussied up police crime reports ... with relatively little literary merit.
But why do fans (like myself) continue to read Ann Rule books? Quite simply, she has a very pleasent style to her prose. It's both folksy yet intelligent and compassionate. It's almost never a bad reading experience. Unfortunately most of these her "true crime files" are hastily constructed and are rarely as good as her more in-depth, beefy true crime works.
Bottom line: very ordinary Ann Rule fodder. She has done much better than this.
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Title: In the Name of Love : Ann Rule's Crime Files Volume 4 by Ann Rule ISBN: 067179356X Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The End Of The Dream The Golden Boy Who Never Grew Up : Ann Rules Crime Files Volume 5 by Ann Rule ISBN: 0671793578 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: A Rose For Her Grave & Other True Cases by Ann Rule ISBN: 0671793535 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: A Rage To Kill and Other True Cases : Anne Rule's Crime Files, Vol. 6 by Ann Rule ISBN: 0671025341 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Want-Ad Killer by Ann Rule, Andy Stack ISBN: 0451166884 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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