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Summary: Some small measure of justice for Annie
Review: It's a measure of how good this book was that my heart literally aches for Anne Marie Fahey. A private woman and a nice Catholic girl, she was mercilessly dragged through scandal after her death. Ms. Rule makes Annie three-dimensional, which is as it should be. Too often in these books, it's the murderer who is the most memorable character. I also enjoyed the passages about the police work. The cops and detectives are real-life heroes. I'm only sorry that Capano's and McIntyre's kids have to live through these revelations.
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Summary: And Never Let Her Go
Review: Perfect! Ann Rule is the BEST! I long awaited this book and was not surprised that Ann did it again. I too would have liked to know more about Kay and the girls. I do hope they are doing well. Thank you once again, Miss Rule for an outstanding book. Keep them coming, Please.Your # 1 fan G.K.Smith
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Summary: Did we all read the same book?
Review: Before writing this, I checking the other 47 reviews and saw overwhelming positive responses ("best I've ever read" "Rule's done it again"). I think I must either have very bad taste or have landed here from Mars. Rule spends almost 200 pages going through the minute details of Fahey's life. Rule is redundant (repeated references to Fahey's strong religious beliefs, to Capano's control, etc.). I finally gave up around midway...maybe I gave up too soon...but I wasn't going to waste one more second on this book. I learned more about this crime from Bill Kurtis' American Justice series, Newsweek, Time, and all the New York Post articles Capano. I stopped caring about Anne Marie and was pretty much anxious for Rule to get to her death so the book would stop reading like Fahey's social calendar ("horse show with Mike Scanlan" "baby sitting"). Rule sucks the life out of these people and makes them not worth caring about. Rule's reign as a true crime writer is over...unless she allows someone to liberally edit her work.
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Summary: Wow! Made me think
Review: I think Ann Rule does a tremendous job of telling this account. What I found most appealing is the candid way in which she portrayed the women who fell prey to Capano's tactics. How many woman can say that they have been able to shake such a charmer? Maybe they have not died physically as a result of a seductive charmer, but I believe that many woman can be defrauded in other ways that leave them vulnerable and completely ill-equipped to say no to men when no is necessary. This book should be a mandatory text for therapy in cases where a woman has a difficult time resisting a charmer who is no good for her. I wish the author would have spent more time interviewing others such as Capano's wife Kay, as well as his siblings. Perhaps there was not the opportunity to do so before the trial, but it would have provided a more balanced perspective as she often quoted McIntyre's retrospective views. If Kay was not available for interview Rule could have provided a rationale for that right in the beginning of the book. Read this one for yourself. Aside from a few shortcomings, I think Rule's writing is superb...and this one is by far, her best.
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Summary: Thank you Ann
Review: You do all of us a great service. Your dedication to research and detail is vital in our understanding of the criminal mind. You show so well, how they manipulate and use people. As a result of that, we are all a little safer. I am sure your books have enabled people to see the many faces of danger before its too late.
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Summary: If You Didn't Know Any Better It Almost Sounds True
Review: The Ann Rule book was well written. I was surprised that it seemed to be a Debby MacIntyre biography. The attempt to make Ms MacIntyre come out smelling like a rose was laughable. The fact that Debby was portrayed as a victim was a joke. For someone who knows nothing about the case it seems almost reasonable. I would take this book at face value and say it was good. If I were interested in the truth I would be concerned with the factual errors printed and wonder why more research didn't go into it before it hit the shelves. Also, I thought it was a low blow to the Capano children that the author would say catty remarks about their style of dress. I think if Ms Rule would have attended more than a handful of days at the trial the book would have had a different slant.
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Summary: And Never Let IT Go! (til you've read every word)
Review: I loved And Never Let Her Go, and I was happy to see this review in the Cleveland PLAIN DEALER this month that really sums up the way I felt. All of Ann's books are wonderful (and I've read them all), but this book about Anne Marie Fahey and Tom Capano was in a class by itself. Everlyn Theiss wrote this review, and I wanted to quote her for people who may not have read And Never Let Her Go: "Ann Rule at her best in retelling Delaware Murder. Killer and victim are portrayed in powerful detail. Ann Rule's skill in selecting crimes that actually merit a book--and bookstore sale bins are filled with ones by other authors who don't--is unparalleled...From the start, 'And Never Let Her Go' is a psychological portrait of a narcissistic murderer and his victim that on its face deserved full-length treatment and not just because of his social prominence. Rule delves so deeply into her characters and their motives that she takes us farther than even the hungriest reader might have expected. What has always separated Rule from others is the skill and compassion with which she presents the background of victims. We come to feel we knew them as well as the killers. No one is ever portrayed one-dimensionally-not even someone as irredeemably evil as Thomas Capano." "...The elements of the crime are familiar. A beautiful woman becomes involved with a powerful man; when she finally breaks it off, he begins to try to control her, then stalks her, and eventually killds her. But Rule is so adept at fleshing out her characters' histories in minibiographies--created in this case from diaries, letters, e-mails and te confidences of friends and family--that we feel heart-rending empathy for victims like Anne Marie Fahey and an understanding of what led to her bad choices." "...Having read many of Rule's books--including The Stranger Beside Me, her devastating book about Ted Bundy...I would say that in her selection and treatment of the Fahey murder, she might have created her masterpiece. In her introduction, Rule wrote, 'If I could only write one book, it would be this one.' Even at nearly 500 pages, readers will be grateful she did. And haunted for weeks by what they have read." I definitely agree with the Cleveland PLAIN DEALER. And Never Let Her Go IS Ann Rule's masterpiece!
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Summary: And Never Let Her Go
Review: If you are from Delaware.... you know everything about this case. I was hoping to find some suprises. I was disappointed.
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Summary: And Never Let Her Go
Review: It would be a shame if this is the first Ann Rule book you read. All of Rule's books are winners, but this one, And Never Let Her Go, is so good that her others seem to pale by comparison. Like a good police dog, Rule takes hold of the elements of this story and never lets it go. She has organized an enormous amount of detail about people, families, places, events, and nuances in relationships into a page-turner that fascinates, not because of lurid details, but because of the outrageous distortion of human character that is revealed in Thomas Capano. This book is a breakthrough for Rule. Her writing seems suddenly freed up from her previous story-telling protocols. She leads from one chilling detail to another so effortlessly that the bedtime reader may glance up and be amazed to find that the sun is coming up. Surely this book will be made into a gripping movie. I hope that Hollywood gives it the serious respect it deserves.
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Summary: Character delineation is done with scapel like precision
Review: Typical of all Ann Rule books, she grabs you with the first paragraph, making it very difficult to put aside the book. She connects all the dots with her usual insight and precision and the reader is able to get inside the heads of the main characters and feels he/she actually knows them. I never miss a Rule book; she is the best of her genre.
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