And Never Let Her Go: Thomas Capano the Deadly Seducer [Import] [Unbound]

Ann Rule (Author)

Product Details

• Unbound
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster (October 1999)
• ISBN-10: 0743202791
• ISBN-13: 978-0743202794
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (162 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,861,286 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I am an author of true-crime books, and I'm now working on my 25th and 26th: NO REGRETS and TOO LATE TO SAY GOODBYE. I have lived in the Seattle Area for many years. Before that, I grew up in Michigan and Pennsylvania, and lived in Texas, Oregon, and near Niagara Falls, N.Y. I always wanted to be a police officer--because my grandfather was a sheriff in Michigan. I joined the Seattle Police Department when I was 21, worked a year and a half, but then I couldn't pass the eye test. After five years of rejection slips, I finally sold my first article for $35! Soon, I found my niche when I began writing for the fact-detective magazines like TRUE DETECTIVE in 1970, and I wrote more than a thousand homicide cases, and went to hundreds of trials. My first book, THE STRANGER BESIDE ME, was about Ted Bundy, but, amazingly, I had the book contract to write about an unknown killer six months before Bundy was identified as the "Ted Killer." And I had known him all along, and didn't realize it; he was my partner in the all-night shift at Seattle's Crisis Clinic! Oddly, I started out writing humor, but unless you are Erma Bombeck, Garrison Keillor, or Fanny Flagg or Dave Barry, it's hard to make a living. Now I write humor for fun and for my friends.

I graduated in Creative Writing from the U of Washington, with minors in criminology and psychology. I also have an AA degree in law enforcement, taking classes in crime scene investigation, arrest, search and seizure, crime scene photography and forensic science. I've lectured in seminars all across America to detectives, prosecutors, and even at the FBI Academy. My subjects have been serial murder, high profile offenders, and women who kill. I write two books every year--one hardcover single-case book, and one Ann Rule's True Crime Files original paperback. Although people tend to think I write only about the Northwest, I go wherever the cases are most interesting. I've written about murder cases in Florida, Georgia, New York, Kansas, Texas, Hawaii, and California, too.

I raised five children on my own--starting out with articles for baby care magazines, Sunday features, true confessions, and then "slicks" like Cosmopolitan, Ladies' Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, and Reader's Digest. Now, my children are grown.

I like to keep in very close touch with my readers, and I'm able to do that with a weblog and a guestbook on my website pages at www.annrules.com This also gives readers a chance to talk with each other, and its' a pretty lively spot--as I'm sure this page will be.

To choose a book subject, I weed through about 3,000 suggestions from readers. I'm looking for an "anti-hero" whose eventual arrest shocks those who knew him (or her): attractive, brilliant, charming, popular, wealthy, talented, and much admired in their communities--but really hiding behind masks.

I'm a reader myself, and I always have several books going at once--one upstairs, downstairs, near the bathtub, in my car, and beside my hammock (in the summer, of course!)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superbly written true crime, January 5, 2000

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One Fancy Angel "Life-Lover" (Milwaukee) - See all my reviews

This review is from: And Never Let Her Go : Thomas Capano: The Deadly Seducer (Hardcover)

It's been many, many years since I've stayed up all night to finish a book, but this one did it for me.

Ann Rule is in top form in this book; her writing is quite well done, unlike many in the true crime genre. The book flows, and while no stone is left unturned, one doesn't feel exhausted and distracted by detail.

At first, I wasn't interested in purchasing this book, believing that since the case received a lot of national publicity and was so recent, I'd know beforehand what I'd read. But I was utterly wrong.

This is really Ann Rule's best book yet, and one of the best books I've ever read in true crime.

28 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best, as Usual, December 29, 1999

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This review is from: And Never Let Her Go : Thomas Capano: The Deadly Seducer (Hardcover)

I've been an Ann Rule fan since she wrote "Stranger Beside Me," about Ted Bundy. I've read nearly all of her books, and her current work, "And Never Let Her Go," ranks at the top of my list. It's a page turner, and it doesn't matter that you begin the book knowing the outcome! Ann Rule expertly draws the reader into the lives of the victim and her slayer, and manages to evoke true empathy for the victim. A sense of outrage pervades the book, as well it should. There is also the realization that evil knows no socio-economic class, which makes it a very scary eye-opener!

In many ways, this book is the only real justice the victim, Anne Marie Fahey, will ever have. It stands as a true memorial, and no one who reads this book will ever forget her.

It is easy to see how Ann Rule gains the confidence of the people involved, in that her facts are impeccably researched, and her portrayal of the lives of the victims is sensitive to a fault.

I can't wait until the next book by Ann Rule is published!

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Compelling Read, January 24, 2000

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Nancy Edenfield (New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: And Never Let Her Go : Thomas Capano: The Deadly Seducer (Hardcover)

As stated, I found this book to be a very compelling read, even though I live in the Delaware Valley and followed this story closely in the local news. The intricate details and obviously well researched information by the author of this case and the two families involved only emphasizes this unreal tragedy. Since I did follow this as a news story, I was astounded to read some of the background information, quite often overlooked when news coverage is limited to a few sensational headlines. I found this to be a well written story which I couldn't put down.