Synopses & Reviews
andlt;Bandgt;Inside a circle of trusted friends...one was a killer.andlt;/Bandgt; andlt;BRandgt;andlt;BRandgt; Jerry Harris was a self-made California millionaire who, at age forty-four, had it all: booming businesses, yachts, a mansion, a beautiful wife, and a voice to rival Elvis. No one who knew this well-liked, generous man could make sense of his sudden disappearance one autumn night. On a final phone call to his brother from his Mercedes, Jerry breathed a muffled oath -- then the line went dead. For Jerry's wife, Susan, it was just the beginning of an unwavering, eight-year search for the truth behind her husband's vanishing. Through exclusive access to an FBI agent inside the investigation, Ann Rule unmasks a man driven by malevolence and hidden jealousy to destroy Jerry Harris' magnificent business empire. She expertly profiles a criminal mind that stopped at nothing in a scheme of greed and violence. With the riveting power of a Greek tragedy, Rule reveals the dark underside of an all-American success story, and a wife's ultimate triumph of justice in the name of love. Including other unforgettable accounts of true crime, this is Ann Rule at her chilling best.
Review
Jill Jordan Sieder andlt;Iandgt;US News and World Reportandlt;/Iandgt; Rule has become the Danielle Steele of true crime.
Review
Jill Jordan Sieder US News and World Report Rule has become the Danielle Steele of true crime.
Synopsis
Inside a circle of trusted friends...one was a killer. Jerry Harris was a self-made California millionaire who, at age forty-four, had it all: booming businesses, yachts, a mansion, a beautiful wife, and a voice to rival Elvis. No one who knew this well-liked, generous man could make sense of his sudden disappearance one autumn night. On a final phone call to his brother from his Mercedes, Jerry breathed a muffled oath -- then the line went dead. For Jerry's wife, Susan, it was just the beginning of an unwavering, eight-year search for the truth behind her husband's vanishing. Through exclusive access to an FBI agent inside the investigation, Ann Rule unmasks a man driven by malevolence and hidden jealousy to destroy Jerry Harris' magnificent business empire. She expertly profiles a criminal mind that stopped at nothing in a scheme of greed and violence. With the riveting power of a Greek tragedy, Rule reveals the dark underside of an all-American success story, and a wife's ultimate triumph of justice in the name of love. Including other unforgettable accounts of true crime, this is Ann Rule at her chilling best.
About the Author
Ann Rule is a former Seattle policewoman and the author of ten New York Times bestsellers, including three previous Crime Files volumes, A Rose for Her Grave, You Belong to Me and the #1 best seller A Fever in the Heart; the #1 best seller If You Really Love Me, a chilling chronicle of a millionaire's murderous secret life; Everything She Ever Wanted, the terrifying story of a sociopathic Georgia belle and her fatal allure; Small Sacrifices, the horrific account of a woman's homicidal assault on her three young children; The Stranger Beside Me, the fascinating tale of Rule's dawning horror as she realized her friend and co-worker, Ted Bundy, was a serial killer; the #1 New York Times bestseller Dad by Sunset, a nightmarish story of a charismatic man and the women who always gave him what he wantedsex, money, their very lives; and the #1 New York Times bestseller Possession, a searing novel of mind control and sexual enslavement on a lonely mountaintop.