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| Original Title: | If You Really Loved Me |
| ISBN: | 0671769200 (ISBN13: 9780671769208) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Ann Rule
Paperback | Pages: 600 pages Rating: 4.05 | 8006 Users | 250 Reviews
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There was only one way to please her father: Murder his wife....David Brown was the consummate entrepreneur: a computer wizard and millionaire by age thirty-two. When his beautiful young wife was shot to death as she slept, Brown's fourteen-year-old daughter, Cinnamon, confessed to killing her stepmother. The California courts sentenced her harshly: twenty-four years to life. But in the wake of Cinnamon's murder conviction, thanks in part to two determined lawmen, the twisted private world of David Brown himself unfolded with astonishing clarity -- revealing a trail of perverse love, twisted secrets, and evil mind games. A complex and often dangerous investigation suggested a horrifying scenario: Was the seemingly bland David Brown really a stone-cold killer who convinced his own daughter to prove her love by killing for him? A man who turned young women into his own personal slaves, who collected nearly $1 million in insurance money, and married his dead wife's teenage sister, David Brown was a sociopath who would stop at nothing...a deadly charmer who almost got away with everything.
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| Title | : | If You Really Loved Me |
| Author | : | Ann Rule |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 600 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 1992 by Pocket Books (first published May 15th 1991) |
| Categories | : | Crime. True Crime. Nonfiction. Mystery. Audiobook. Biography. Thriller |
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One of Ann Rule's best. The true story of David Brown, 36, a wealthy computer whiz and psychopath, who persuades his 16-year-old sister-in-law, Patti (whom hed started grooming for sex from the age of 11) and his 14-year-old daughter, Cinnamon, to rid him of his 22-year-old 5th wife, Linda, mother of baby Krystal. (Supposedly Linda was insisting that he get rid of the two teenagers, who'd lived with them for several years; actually Linda dead was worth a million dollars in insurance proceeds.)David Brown loved child brides. All six of his marriages were to emotionally weak and uneducated females. Most of them were 15 years old when David began having sex with them. No one seemed to think that odd. David had married Brenda, his first wife, when both were 17. Both had dropped out of school a year before, and she was pregnant with Cinnamon when they married. Number three and five, Linda (they were married twice) was only 23 when Cinnamon was 14, but both girls liked each other. David
This is a first-rate offering from Ann Rule's "golden era" of the 1980s, in which she was a) tremendously prolific; b) tremendously comprehensive; and c) showed tremendously discerning taste in subject matter. The story: Talented but erratic ne'er-do-well David Brown lives in Southern California with three women his wife, his teen daughter and his wife's teen sister. Using every tool in the sociopath's kit, he induces one to kill the other and take the blame so he can conduct a sick affair with
This is a first-rate offering from Ann Rule's "golden era" of the 1980s, in which she was a) tremendously prolific; b) tremendously comprehensive; and c) showed tremendously discerning taste in subject matter. The story: Talented but erratic ne'er-do-well David Brown lives in Southern California with three women his wife, his teen daughter and his wife's teen sister. Using every tool in the sociopath's kit, he induces one to kill the other and take the blame so he can conduct a sick affair with
Interesting at first, but at 500 pages it just seemed to go on and on and on and on...
Such a sad and tragic story.
Really fascinating read. Having read a few books by Ann Rule already, I definitely see some similarities in her main characters--the similarities of the sociopath, but somehow each book remains fresh. Maybe it is like Tolstoy said: "Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." I love the humanity of her books, even as they explore people who have essentially silenced theirs.
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