Title: Painful to read
Product review: I tried an Ann Rule book (this one) based on friends' recommendations - I enjoy books about true crime. This is possibly the worst book I've ever read. It was painfully dull, with Rule delving into unnecessary, boring details about minor characters' lives when she could have omitted these people entirely without affecting the story at all. As I read this (determined that it MUST at some point get better - it didn't), it seemed like Rule was merely drawing out the story in order to fill as many pages as she'd promised her publisher. The first story drones on and on for 300 pages, when the tale could have been told more effectively in about thirty. It was a relief when I finished the book and could throw it away. If interested in a more entertaining and talented true crime writer, I recommend John Douglas highly.
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