Title: too much of an Ann Rule memoir
Product review: Ann Rule is one of the most infuriating writers of any genre. When she puts her mind to it, she can certainly write true crime well, but this book suffers from a heavier dose of E.A.R.S. (Excessive Ann Rule Syndrome) than her other writings, and she always manages to inappropriately abruptly stop the flow of her narrative to put herself into whatever she is writing about.Also, her research at times is faulty, to say the least. I read the paperback version of this book -- which presumably would have given her time to correct errors from the hardback edition -- and she still, in the afterword, places the infamous Scott Peterson on death row "in Alcatraz", which has not been used as a prison since the early 1960s. Peterson is, of course, in San Quentin State Prison, but the reader is left to wonder: if Rule got this fact wrong, how many other inaccuracies are in this book?
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