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Books : Small Sacrifices: A True Story of Passion and MurderIn association with Amazon.comby: Ann Rule  Amazon.com's Price: $7.99 Prices subject to change.Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 364 EAN: 9780451166609 ISBN: 0451166604 Label: Signet Manufacturer: Signet Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 496 Publication Date: July 05, 1988 Publisher: Signet Studio: Signet Sales Rank: 26176 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Ann Rule's shocking and powerful account of the destructive forces that drove Diane Downs, a beautiful young mother, to shoot her three young children in cold blood. "Vivid....Extraordinary...a page-turner."--New York Times Book Review "Superb...[a] riveting detective story."--Indianapolis Star "A harrowing pathological portrait....A work of resonance and revelation with breath-stopping tension to the end." --Kirkus Reviews "Fascinating...grisly...un-putdownable." --New York Daily News "Excellent....One of the most detailed studies of a sociopath to dignify the true-crime circuit." --The San Francisco Chronicle "A raw docudrama of almost unbelievable intensity." --Booklist * Also by Ann Rule (in Signet's newly repackaged editions): The Stranger Beside Me (4/99), The I-5 Killer (6/99), The Want-Ad Killer (8/99), The Lust Killer (10/99) Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Could've been betterRule could benefit tremendously from a good editor and a good copy editor. She milked some parts of Downs' endless verbosity and didn't explore other parts, like Downs' defense attorney's preparation. She did do a great job of presenting the challenges (budgetary, etc) faced by law enforcement. I think this book could've been a lot stronger had someone gotten real with Rule and told her it needed to be cut down by a third. It just was not as quick a read as the story involved would have indicated. Rating:  - One Strange Lady.....Diane Down's gave me the creeps. As a mother of three myself - it's hard to comprehend how someone could do such a thing. She was a very wierd, wicked, self-serving woman. How she could call herself a 'Christian' was beyond me. They said she read the bible every night??? Not one thing in her life reflected a walk with Christ! The book started out good, got slow and redundant in the middle, but better towards the end. An interesting book that didn't knock my socks off, but worth reading. Rating:  - Sad tale of a Mother who MurderedThis is a riveting and spellbinding book about a woman who let her sick obsessions overrule her heart and her love for her children. It is a story about selfishness and desire. It is about how children become pawns in a world of lust and greed and how they paid the ultimate price. Thankfully, the perpetrator did not evade the justice that will be dealt her here on earth. It made me sad for children who are born into homes where there is no guidance and no love, only madness. It grabs ... Read More Rating:  - unfortunatelyI bought this book after seeing the movie. I didn't get very far into the book before I lost interest because the movie has been on so much and is pretty much exactly based on this book. Rating: - The Sociopathic WomanAnn Rule portrays the sociopath like no other author can do. While the book is deeply disturbing, the writing is excellent. Browse for similar items by category:
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