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    If You Really Loved Me
    If You Really Loved Me
    If You Really Loved Me
    Audiobook (abridged)3 hours

    If You Really Loved Me

    Written by Ann Rule

    Narrated by Ann Rule

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    About this audiobook

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJun 1, 1991
    ISBN9780743548625
    If You Really Loved Me
    Author

    Ann Rule

    Ann Rule wrote thirty-five New York Times bestsellers, all of them still in print. Her first bestseller was The Stranger Beside Me, about her personal relationship with infamous serial killer Ted Bundy. A former Seattle police officer, she used her firsthand expertise in all her books. For more than three decades, she was a powerful advocate for victims of violent crime. She lived near Seattle and died in 2015.

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    • 4/5
      In Depth and riviting... Ann Rule enjoys bringing out the best in her characters. Great story and to be true is unbelievable. Wordy but worht it...

      3 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      This guy gave me the creeps - it really left you wondering what happened to all of the characters and hoping that their lives turned out okay after this mess. First book of Rule's I have read, and I would pick up another one based on this. A little too long in parts, but all in all, worth it.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Audiobook - Another well written book by Ann Rule.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      I know I really liked reading this book.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      This is the first book by Ann Rule I have found lacking. And she isn't a great narorrator.
    • 2/5
      I like this author's work, but I can't take the music in the background, very distracting.

      3 people found this helpful