Worth More Dead: And Other True Cases (Ann Rule's Crime Files, Vol. 10) | 
 enlarge | Author: Ann Rule
Publisher: Pocket
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Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 109633
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 432
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.5
ISBN: 074344874X
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.15230973
EAN: 9780743448741
Publication Date: November 29, 2005
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Condition: Some wear on book from reading, spine creases, wear on binding and pages.
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Why would a man kill his lover's husband and then his wife, the woman who fought successfully to have him paroled from prison? Why would he risk arrest by kidnapping the child of another woman who adored him? Because they were... Worth More Dead A cold case reopened -- and solved -- with dogged police work and new evidence. One of the shocking true crimes of passion and greed from Ann Rule's Crime Files.Former Marine sergeant and judo instructor Roland Pitre Jr. claimed it was all an elaborate plan to win back his wife's love -- it wasn't supposed to end with her dead body in the trunk of a car. Nearly twenty years later, he acknowledged that he had hired someone to kill his estranged wife in 1988, though his alleged excuse for why a monstrous "mistake" happened is as shocking and convoluted as the crime itself. Eventually, he was charged with first-degree murder in the long-unsolved death of Cheryl Pitre, after a mysterious witness betrayed Pitre to save his own skin. Tracing back the dark and bloody path of Pitre's life, two generations of detectives found a chain of brutal and terrifying crimes by a man who manipulated the courts and prisons to walk free.
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 Another Great Read, Better than Last Few June 27, 2006
ardnam (NJ)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
First, I am a fan of Ann Rule. I feel she handles her genre expertly. With the past few crime files books, however, I found myself becoming a little disappointed although I still enjoyed her books. I felt that too much time was spent on the detectives (yes, I am sure that her police background makes her partial) and I found that old cases were being written about without any new information added. Along came this book and I purchased it expecting to be entertained but not expecting the book to be up to Ms. Rule's usual standard. Well, this book surprised me. I thoroughly enjoyed the five stories in this volume and I will now look at the next in the crime files a bit differently and without skepticism. I feel like this is a worthy book and not one that the publisher was in a hurry to get "out there" in order to make a buck. Whether you are new to Ann's book or someone who has read everything she has written, you will enjoy this book.
Yeah! Another Ann Rule Anthology! December 30, 2006
KDMask (Rochester, Planet Fab, NY)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I must admit I was giddy when I saw this at the grocery store. I so love Ann's work, that I'd read just about anything she's written. This Crime File was a great one. The first story is the more detailed of the bunch and centers on a man that got away with quite a bit in his criminal lifetime. I think the last story however, was the most personal for Rule; you can feel her empathy through the pages. "Desperate Housewife" cronicles a woman's struggle to leave an unhappy marriage and her ultimate demise by the hands of her husband.
I learn so much about the Seattle area in her books...I think I could probably visit one day and know my way around.
If you're a true crime buff, you know Rule's work and certainly don't need to be told to buy this book. If you're new to the genre and want to read a master, here she is!
another blockbuster best seller January 30, 2006
Karen Sampson Hudson (Reno, NV United States)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Ann Rule's readers will rejoice that she has presented us with another riveting book, written with her unflagging compassion and in her inimitable style. Here are five cases from her files of the past twenty years. The cast of characters come to vivid life, as once more she speaks for the victims who have been cruelly silenced. Especially good are the portrayals of prosecutors and lawmen who are haunted by these unsolved crimes, even as decades pass, and who are unflagging in their efforts to secure justice for the mourning families.
It's a bit of a jar when Rule points out that in 1988 there was no caller id, DNA testing was an emerging technology in its infancy, and home computers were not ubiquitous. I finished the book with a greater awareness of the many technical tools now available to criminal investigators, making their tasks far easier as they track down people like the twisted murderers in Rule's accounts.
For many years, Ann Rule has been the unparalleled queen of the true-crime genre. Long may she reign!
Very, Very Good Book December 14, 2005
Diana Gonzalez (Texas)
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
It's a great book. Once you start reading it you won't be able to put it down and at the same time you don't want the book to end because it's so interesting that you want to keep reading and reading. I can't seem to get enough of Ann Rule's books. I still haven't read all of them but I intend to.
Ann Rule Gets Better With Each Book August 31, 2006
K. Cantrell (Tennessee)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
The most recent release of one of the best true crime authors Ann Rule, is a great compilation of stories relating the tales of those depraved, twisted individuals that found others lives to be more valuable to them, whether financially or physically, dead than alive.
Worth More Dead contains five unique stories that makes readers question their worth to those closest to them.
Once again Ann Rule produces a must-read for true crime fans everywhere!
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