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Summary: Accurate portrayal of diabolic manipulator
Review: As a resident of the city where Tom Capano and Ann Marie Fahey lived. I attest to the accuracy of this book. Ann Rule's investigative reporting is meticulous, down to the last detail. Her portrayal of the various characters is excellent. A great book!
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Summary: I recommend this book only if.....
Review: your preference is NOT Jerry Springer-type exploitation and cheap thrills.I couldn't figure out the negative reviews, then it became clear. Most of those reviewers were complaining that it was too long and boring, and not flashy enough like the other books on the subject. The reason for that is because Ann Rule is interested in the PEOPLE behind the story, not the juicy, trashy, surface of the story. She puts us in the shoes of the victim, of the victim's family, of the the detectives. Bias towards the victim? DUH! Somebody needs to be! If you want to read about the victims, who they were, who the killer's family was, how it all came to the deadly conclusion it did, and how the investigation came together to do this girl and her family justice, then this book is for you. If you think that true crime books are tributes to the victims so their deaths are not in vain, and if you read and own true crime books as a way of honoring the victims and their families, this book is for you. If you read it for the gory details, cheap headlines, and racy storylines, you will not like this book.
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Summary: Biased and Long Book
Review: This is the first Ann Rule book I have ever read. I plan To make it the last. The book was very biased. It could not really be called investigative. It seemed to present a one dimensional side of the events. It is amazing that it took so many pages to present such a limted view. I do not know the facts of the situation but it really seems like the author used a lot of words to not tell a complete story.
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Summary: And Never Let Her Go
Review: this book was in such good shape and I'm reading it now.an I also liked the fact that when I got the book I got a nice e-mail letter from the seller to see if everything was ok with my order and that I got the book on time
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Summary: But I sure would like to.
Review: While the facts of the case of Tom Capano are interesting, the writing is dry, stilted and peppered with rhetoric. There is no mystery about who did what, no suspense and no question about who is the bad guy here. I would have preferred a more novel-like accounting, with a little mystery as to the outcome.
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Summary: Too long.
Review: Ann Rule was one of my favorite writers, and still is, but I can't say I much care for "And Never Let Her Go". It's not a bad book, but it's way too long. I got bored in places. Ann just seemed to go on and on and on and on and ON about Anne Marie and everyone. I mean, 700 pages devoted to just one murder. By comparison her Ted Bundy book (and he killed scores of women) was only 550. I really think this book could have used another few passes at the editting table, for cuts. Also, I don't think Debby MacIntyre is the innocent put-upon Ann makes her out to be. In her book "Small Sacrifices", Ann wrote that Diane Downs ruined her marriage but she was careful to point out that Steve Downs wasn't exactly a saint. I wish she had done the same with Debby and Tom -- Tom is a [...] no doubt, but Debby did after all have an affair with her friend's husband. Kay Capano and Anne Marie Fahey are the wronged women in this story, not Debby MacIntyre.
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Summary: Mixed review
Review: I am a big fan of Ann Rule's and have read many of her books. She is well known for the incredible research she does and the amount of details she is able to provide about people's lives. Such is the case with this book but for some reason, I found some of the details to be excessive and I did some skimming early in the book. Once past some of what I found tedious to read, the book picked up and kept me turning pages and unable to put it down. The subject and the story of the book are fascinating and, in 2001, very timely. It will make you think a lot about current affairs that have an awful lot of similarities to this case. Rule's coverage of the trial is terrific and her presentation of the unraveling of the truth in this story are delivered with the suspense you'd expect from fiction. In this case, truth is, as in most of Rule's books, stranger than fiction.
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Summary: A must read for Women in affairs or considering them
Review: Starts off a little stilted but then picks up to the usual Ann standards. I had to put this book down many times because I could not belive a woman such as Annie could do and continue to do such stupid self-defeating things. Her actions were that of a broken record repeating itself over and over. Reading this book was like watching a scary movie where you already know the ending but continue to shout at the screen anyway. The way Ann Rule writes about Annie's friends make you wonder if they were on valium or something. The apathy before the fact is truly sickening.
Capano is a by-the-book psycho, we have see his type time and time again. You would think by now someone would have come up with a computer program to identify this behaviour. I read this book after the Condit-Levy mess and the similarities are astounding. It sounds like another book for Ann...
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Summary: Good book, but highly biased
Review: This is the very first true crime book I've read by Ms. Rule. While I give her credit for researching the backgrounds of the various players (Capano, Fahey, McIntyre), I cannot help but to think that Rule tries too hard to portray Fahey as a saintly individual who made a "mistake." Wrong. She might have been a charming, hardworking woman and loyal friend to many; however, she *did* get involved with a married man - a very obvious moral flaw. So Fahey couldn't have been as naive as Rule portrays her. Nor does Fahey seem to know the dynamics of an affair. If Fahey wanted Capano out of her life, it would have been easy to tell him "no" and refused further contact (did Fahey ever contemplate a restraining order, as would most women who felt they were being stalked?). That she did not severe ties strongly suggests that Fahey didn't really want the affair to be over. This is not in any way meant to assume that Fahey got what was coming to her - certainly she didn't, and Capano is truly a cold-blooded monster who deserves his come-uppance. However, she *did* play an active part in the events that led to her own death. That said, for a more unbiased account of the Fahey murder, I'd recommend readers turn to "Summer Wind" - I intend to do the same.
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Summary: Still Ann Rule, but not her best.
Review: This book was a little too much Ann Rule for me. I have enjoyed
many of her books in the past, but she just couldn't seem to
get a handle on this case, as compared to the other writers and
journalists who also wrote on the case. For whatever reason, Ann
couldn't get past the he-said, she-said part of the investigations. But, all said and done, she remains my favorite.
I would like to recommend a wonderful true crime novel I just finished, A Reason To Live: The True Story of One Woman's Love, Courage and Determination To Survive. Now, these two guys have
the talent to take an ordinary true crime story and write it
in such a way you wont' be able to put it down.
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