Don't Look Behind You: And Other True Cases

Ann Rule's Crime Files, Book 15

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins

Publisher's summary

I'll be watching you.

Walking home on a dark night, you hear footsteps coming up behind you. As they get closer, your heart pounds harder. Who is closing in with dangerous intent - a total stranger? Or someone you know and trust? The answer is as simple as turning around, but don’t look behind you . . . run.

Ann Rule, who shared her own nerve-jangling account of unknowingly befriending sadistic sociopath Ted Bundy in The Stranger Beside Me, chronicles other fateful encounters with the hidden predators among us in this riveting collection, fifteenth in the best-selling series drawn from her personal files. First in line is a stunning case that spanned thirty years and took a determined detective to four states - ending, finally, in Alaska - where he unraveled not one but two murders. A second case appears to begin and end with the hunt for the Green River Killer, focusing on a Washington State man who was once cleared as a suspect in that deadly chain of homicides. But the millionaire property owner believed he had successfully buried his own murderous past and the awful truth behind his young wife’s disappearance. She vanished soon after she left for a day at the Seattle World’s Fair, and her three small children grew up believing their mother had abandoned them. But one amazing witness remained - the missing woman’s best friend, who heard her last words in a frantic phone call - “He’s coming!” - before the line went dead. Only since Robert Hansen’s suicide has the monster within been revealed.

In another true story, a petite woman went to a tavern, looking only for conversation and fun. Instead, she met violent death in the form of a seven-foot man who had seemed shy and harmless. You’ll feel a chill as you uncover these and numerous other cases of unfortunate victims who made one tragic mistake: Trusting the wrong person - even someone they’d known intimately, or thought they knew.

©2011 Ann Rule (P)2013 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. Recorded by arrangement with Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

momotone

struggled to finish. voice could not keep interest she was too easy to blend out. stories went WAY too detailed with extended family info.

Another excellent book

If you could sum up Don't Look Behind You: And Other True Cases in three words, what would they be?

Gripping, compelling, fascinating

What other book might you compare Don't Look Behind You: And Other True Cases to and why?

Very similar to Ann Rule's other true crime novels. Cases are very engrossing and well researched and presented.

Really interesting.

The narration was done very well. What I liked about this book was that there were several stories not just one so you definitively get your moneys worth.

Very good story.

This story is very interesting. The end is unexpected, but it doesn’t lessen the impact of the book. I was interested and absorbed in every single minute. Laural Merlington is very good at reading Ann Rule’s stories. I’ve come to think of her as Rule’s own voice. Highly recommended.

Another Favorite by Ann Rule

Ann has done it again, I found each of the 4 cases very interesting and I took personal lessons away from each one. A must Read.

The selection

good work on the titles, and no interrupting with ads and such. 15 words is very dumb f.y.i.

Great story compilation

This book contained several very interesting true crime stories. Well told and engaging!! Couldn't stop listening.

Ann Rule does well but...

Just listening to her talk about how women need to change their behavior to avoid being raped or attacked. There's a billion little rules on what to do or not to do. Perhaps instead we should be teaching men not to rape.

Yawn.

The first account seemed to be interminably long. I first tried to skip ahead a chapter or two. I felt like I hadn't missed one thing by doing so! After skipping several consecutive chapters, I jumped all the way to the last chapter, hoping to at least complete the story. It was as drawwwwwn out as each previous. Suffice it to say, I did not finish that tale.

The rest of the chronicles were more interesting, but I felt let down by each and every ending.

This made me sad because I've always liked Ann Rule for a good read. :/

A favorite author

Surprisingly, the final story in this book, had been included in another of the Author's multi-case collections. In all the years I've been reading AR, I'd never seen that happen.