A Fever in the Heart, Ann Rule
A Fever in the Heart, Ann Rule
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A Fever in the Heart
And Other True Cases

Author: Ann Rule

Narrator: Laural Merlington

Abridged: 7 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/16/2013


Synopsis

A Fever in the Heart dissects an explosive triangle that led to obsession and murder in a small town in the northwest of America. Ann Rule reveals the story of an alluring wife and the two men desperate for her love; a story with a bizarre and deadly twist that no one could have suspected. In this tale and “Mirror Image,” a true-crime story recounting the frighteningly similar methods of two serial murders, Ann Rule masterfully probes the delusions of the criminal mind, the fateful circumstances and the unrelenting investigative forces at work in the aftermath of murder.

About Ann Rule

Ann Rae Stackhouse was born in Lowell, MI in 1931. Her mother taught school, specializing in developmentally disabled children, and her father was a coach. Ann was in law enforcement in her young adult years, as was many in her family. She received various degrees from different colleges and universities, including studying creative writing, criminology, and psychology at University of Washington.

Ann's marriage, and eventual divorce changed her last name to Rule, which she keeps as her author name. Her extensive education and experience as a police woman gave her the perfect credentials to become regarded by many as the foremost true crime writer in America, setting the standards for the genre. For example, while she was volunteering at a suicide hotline center in Seattle in 1971, she met a work study student by the name of Ted Bundy, not realizing until a few years later that it was the same Bundy responsible for a series of murders. To her, he was kind, solicitous, and empathetic. She wrote her first book about him, considered one of the definitive biographies of Bundy.......The Stranger Beside Me (written under her own name, rather than the previously used pen name).

Rule has been a full-time crime writer since 1969, and has published 33 books and 1400 articles, mostly on criminal cases.

Today, she teaches seminars to law enforcement groups, a certified instructor in many subjects such as: Serial Murder, Sadistic Sociopaths, Women Who Kill, and High Profile Offenders. She has consulted with the FBI at their headquarters in Quantico, VA tracking a system to help identify and trap serial killers. She testimonies twice before the Senate Judiciary Sub-committee on victim's rights and the danger of serial killers.

Simon and Schuster currently have Rule under contract. Eight of her books have been made into TV movies, and more are in the works. Ann is in active support groups for victims of violent crimes and their families, in programs to help battered and abused women, and support group.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sharon on October 29, 2022

OMG! Truth is definitely stranger than fiction. That's why I love non-fiction so much, particularly true crime and memoir/biography/autobiography, as well as history and politics. Ann Rule was an incredible New York Times bestselling true-crime writer who worked alongside serial killer Ted Bundy at a......more

Goodreads review by HaikuTeigh on December 05, 2022

Control A love triangle that went awry. One person could not and would not let go. He called it love, but it went out of bounds. People cannot be forced to reciprocate love, no matter what. This story involves desperation beyond realistic reach. Plans were discussed, and then actually carried out, a......more

Goodreads review by Pooja on September 20, 2022

In a small town in Washington, a woman discovers her husband shot outside her house, setting off a complicated investigation into the murder. I like true crime, but a fairly specific kind that focuses more on the people involved in the case rather than gory details or courtroom drama. Luckily, Ann Ru......more

Goodreads review by Gary on February 22, 2018

LOL!! I dated the woman in this book in high school. She is renamed (for obvious reasons) in this account of love, jealousy, and murder in Yakima, Washington. I met her at a local drive-in burger joint named the Freezer in the summer of 1963. She was driving a 1961 Chevrolet Impala convertible but s......more

Goodreads review by Lorie on September 16, 2012

Very interesting to me because I lived in the same town and the coach' wife was my PE teacher. I attended the school where he taught and they all seemed so normal.......more