Ann Rule Best Sellers - April 2024

Practice to Deceive

From “America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews) Ann Rule comes the New York Times bestselling mystery novel of drama, greed, sex, scandal, and murder on an eerie island in the Pacific Northwest. Nestled in Puget Sound and accessible only by ferry, Whidbey Island is a gem off the coast of Washington State where life is insular and the island’s year-round residents tend to know one another’s business. But when the blood-drenched body of Russel Douglas is discovered the day after Christmas in his SUV, the whole island is shocked. No one can imagine who among them could plot suc... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00BSB2CJW
• ASIN: B00BSB2CJW
• Manufacturer: Gallery Books

A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel

• ASIN: B01COJUEZ0
• ASIN: B01COJUEZ0
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Small Sacrifices

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me comes a shocking true crime account of the destructive forces that drove a beautiful young mother to shoot her three young children in cold blood.“Somebody just shot my kids!” Diane Downs brought her car to a halt in front of a Springfield, Oregon, hospital, her three gravely wounded children beside her. Thus begins the tale of a truly unthinkable crime that shattered the tranquility of a tight-knit community. As police searched for the “shaggy-haired stranger” Diane accused of shooting 8-year-old Christie, 7-year... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0451166604
• ASIN: 0451166604
• ISBN: 0451166604
• Brand: Signet
• Manufacturer: Berkley

The Stranger Beside Me: The Shocking True Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy

Ann Rule was working on the biggest story of her career, tracking the trail of victims left by a brutal serial killer. Little did this future best-selling author know that the savage slayer she was hunting was the young man she counted among her closest friends. Everyone's picture of a natural winner, Ted Bundy was a bright, charming, and handsome man with a promising future as an attorney. But on January 24, 1989 Bundy was executed for the murders of three young women - and had confessed to taking the lives of at least thirty-five more women from coast to coast. Ann Rule, who kept in consta... [Read More]

• ASIN: B007NVDZGA
• ASIN: B007NVDZGA
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Audio

Milkman: A Novel

• ASIN: B07JH1DPXP
• ASIN: B07JH1DPXP
• Manufacturer: Graywolf Press

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

• ASIN: 0062319787
• ASIN: 0062319787
• ISBN: 0062319787
• Manufacturer: Harper

True Crime Stories: 3 True Crime Books Collection (True Crime Novels Anthology)

It is no secret that true crime murder stories are not for the faint of heart. They can lead you to double-check your windows and doors at night, and question everything you thought or believed about human nature. Yet they are intriguing and fascinating at the same time. What is it that makes us different from those who take the lives of others? That is a question that many ask themselves, and these true crime stories help to identify the method and psychology behind some of the most terrifying killers in modern history.This set includes three true crime books, volumes 1-3, and each is filled ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B074ZHYTLD
• ASIN: B074ZHYTLD

The Big Book of Serial Killers: 150 Serial Killer Files of the World's Worst Murderers (An Encyclopedia of Serial Killers 1)

There is little more terrifying than those who hunt, stalk and snatch their prey under the cloak of darkness. These hunters search not for animals, but for the touch, taste, and empowerment of human flesh. They are cannibals, vampires and monsters, and they walk among us. These serial killers are not mythical beasts with horns and shaggy hair. They are people living among society, going about their day to day activities until nightfall. They are the Dennis Rader’s, the fathers, husbands, church going members of the community. This A-Z encyclopedia of 150 serial killers is the ideal reference... [Read More]

• ASIN: B071K51FQ4
• ASIN: B071K51FQ4

Rain Reign

From Newbery Honor author Ann M. Martin, who wrote the Baby-sitters Club series, comes a New York Times-bestselling middle grade novel about a girl, her dog, and the trials of growing up in a complicated and often scary world. Rose Howard is obsessed with homonyms. She's thrilled that her own name is a homonym, and she purposely gave her dog Rain a name with two homonyms (Reign, Rein), which, according to Rose's rules of homonyms, is very special. Not everyone understands Rose's obsessions, her rules, and the other things that make her different―not her teachers, not other kids, and not her... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250073979
• ASIN: 1250073979
• ISBN: 1250073979
• Manufacturer: Square Fish

Above Suspicion: An Undercover FBI Agent, an Illicit Affair, and a Murder of Passion

The “expertly told” true story of an FBI agent’s affair that leads to murder in Kentucky coal country—soon to be a major motion picture starring Emilia Clarke (Publishers Weekly). When rookie FBI agent Mark Putnam received his first assignment in 1987, it was the culmination of a lifelong dream, if not the most desirable location. Pikeville, Kentucky, is high in Appalachian coal country, an outpost rife with lawlessness dating back to the Hatfields and McCoys. As a rising star in the bureau, however, Putnam soon was cultivating paid informants and busting drug rings and bank robbers... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01N49MWZH
• ASIN: B01N49MWZH
• Brand: Open Road Media
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

Interior Design Master Class: 100 Lessons from America's Finest Designers on the Art of Decoration

With one hundred essays from one hundred interior designers, spanning stylistic genres from classic to modern, on subjects as varied as "Collecting," "White," "Portals," and "Layering", this book highlights the knowledge, experience, expertise, insight, and work of established design legends, as well as members of the new guard, spanning over four decades of work. Unique in the quality of its contributors, this book will be a landmark publication in the field, helpful and inspirational for the home decorator, as well as students of design and design professionals. Poised to become the essentia... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0847848906
• ASIN: 0847848906
• ISBN: 0847848906
• Brand: Rizzoli International Publications
• Manufacturer: Rizzoli

The I-5 Killer

The terrifying true crime story of the I-5 serial killer from Ann Rule, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me.  Randall Woodfield had it all. He was an award-winning student and star athlete. he was drafted for pro football by the Green Bay Packers, and chosen by Playgirl as a centerfold candidate. Working in the swinging West Coast bar scene, he had his pick of willing sexual prospects. But Randall Woodfield wanted more than just sex. An appetite for unspeakable violent acts led him to cruise the I-5 highway through California, Oregon, and Washington, leaving... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0451165594
• ASIN: 0451165594
• ISBN: 0451165594
• Brand: Signet Book
• Manufacturer: Berkley

Practical Magic

The Owens sisters confront the challenges of life and love in this bewitching novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic and The World That We Knew.For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and their exotic concoctions and their crowd of black cats. Bu... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0425190374
• ASIN: 0425190374
• ISBN: 0425190374
• Brand: Berkley Publishing Group
• Size: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Berkley

The Stranger Beside Me: The Twentieth Anniversary Edition

• ASIN: 0393050297
• ASIN: 0393050297
• ISBN: 0393050297
• Brand: Rule, Ann
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat (Vampire Chronicles)

The Vampire Chronicles continue with a riveting, rich saga--part adventure, part suspense--of Prince Lestat and the story of the Blood Communion as he tells the tale of his coming to rule the vampire world and the eternal struggle to find belonging, a place in the universe for the undead, and how, against his will, he must battle the menacing, seemingly unstoppable force determined to thwart his vision and destroy the entire vampire netherworld.In this spellbinding novel, Lestat, rebel outlaw, addresses the tribe of vampires, directly, intimately, passionately, and tells the mesmerizing story ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1524732648
• ASIN: 1524732648
• ISBN: 9781524732646
• Manufacturer: Knopf

The Essential Writer's Guide : Spotlight on Ann Rule, Including Her Education, Analysis of Her Best Sellers Such as Dead by Sunset, and Small Sacrifi

The Essential Writer's Guide

• UPC: 258378064

12 Rules for Life : An Antidote to Chaos

"What does everyone in the modern world need to know? [The author's] answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research.

• UPC: 56176619
• Rating: 4.455

Rodrick Rules (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #2) (Hardcover)

This follow-up to the "New York Times" bestselling "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" chronicles Greg Heffley'S attempts to navigate the hazards of middle school, impress the girls, and to keep his secret safe--especially from his

• UPC: 7753848
• Rating: 4.525

164 Rules for Writing a Best Seller - Audiobook

Do you have a book in you? This short easy to follow, no nonsense guide contains many small gems of writing wisdom and will soon have your fingers furiously tapping away at the keyboard in

• UPC: 486688631

At Home with Natalie : Simple Recipes for Healthy Living from My Family’s Kitchen to Yours

Easy and delicious recipes for busy families from the TODAY show’s West Coast anchor and host of NBC’s

• UPC: 984883032

The Essential Writer's Guide : Spotlight on Ann Radcliffe, Including His Personal Life, Best Sellers Such as a Sicilian Romance, the Romance of the F

The Essential Writer's Guide: Spotlight on Ann Radcliffe, Including His Personal Life, Best Sellers Such as a Sicilian Romance, the Romance of the

• UPC: 359017080

The Essential Writer's Guide : Spotlight on Ann McCaffrey, Including Her Awards Received, an Analysis of Her Best Sellers Such as the Skies of Pern, the Dolphins of Pern, and More

The Essential Writer's Guide

• UPC: 141429573

The Essential Writer's Guide : Spotlight on Ann Coulter, Including Her Education, Analysis of Her Best Sellers Such as Godless, Slander, and More

The Essential Writer's Guide: Spotlight on Ann Coulter, Including her Education, Analysis of her Best Sellers such as Godless, Slander, and

• UPC: 574688774

The Essential Writer's Guide : Spotlight on Ann Nocenti, Including Her Education, Genres, and Analysis of Her Best Sellers Such as Venom, Star Wars, and More

The Essential Writer's Guide

• UPC: 923844092

The Essential Writer's Guide : Spotlight on Meredith Ann Pierce, Including Her Personal Life, Analyses of Best Sellers Such as the Dark Angel Trilogy and the Firebringer Trilogy, and More

The Essential Writer's Guide: Spotlight on Meredith Ann Pierce, Including Her Personal Life, Best Sellers Such as the Dark Angel Trilogy and the

• UPC: 419980465