A Rose for Her Grave, Ann Rule
A Rose for Her Grave, Ann Rule
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A Rose for Her Grave
And Other True Cases

Author: Ann Rule

Narrator: Laural Merlington

Unabridged: 16 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/26/2013

Synopsis

A Rose for Her Grave tells the story of Randy Roth from the razor-sharp perspective of Ann Rule. Rule attended the Roth trial and includes gripping accounts and details from her personal files on the case. A Rose for Her Grave delves into the heinous crimes of the monster Randy Roth; a man who seduced and manipulated vulnerable women into marrying him and opening up a large life insurance policy…all for him to collect when they conveniently met their untimely end. Rule exposes the heartbreaking facts of the investigation into his crimes, his last three wives and the tortured children left behind.“Rule is this country's premier true crime author as well as one of its most prolific. She maintains her position with this first volume in a projected five-volume series….Rule's ability to depict both criminals and victims as believable human beings is perfectly embodied in this sad, fascinating account. Indeed, all her accounts present the female victims as real people who deserve compassionate treatment. For all popular true crime collections.-- Ben Harrison, East Orange P.L., N.J. Library Journal

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 jv

Only Ms. Rule could have written so diplomatically about the man that married, then murdered for insurance money.......more

Goodreads review by Laur

All in the name of greed, Randy Roth marries, murders, and steals for his own profit - to collect insurance and assets- never showing an ounce of remorse for his victims or any other life he ruined including children’s. A predator who deliberately set his plan in motion time and time again. Ann Rule......more

Goodreads review by Katherine

*"A Rose for Her Grave": Beacon Rock OR 1981, Lake Sammamish WA 1991: the abominable career of Randy Roth, who murdered two of his four wives for their life insurance--and a third escaped him by the skin of her teeth *"Campbell's Revenge": Clearview WA 1974, 1982: the completely preventable murders o......more

Goodreads review by Dollie

I’m a sucker for true crime stories and nobody writes them better than Ann Rule. She takes cases from her personal case files and explains them to her readers like no one else can. The first case in this book, A Rose For Her Grave, is the story of Randy Roth and his unfortunate wives. Roth was convi......more

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