If You Really Loved Me: A True Story of Desire and Murder
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Paperback(Mass Market Paperback - Reissue)
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$9.59
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780671769208 |
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| Publisher: | Pocket Books |
| Publication date: | 04/01/1992 |
| Edition description: | Reissue |
| Pages: | 608 |
| Sales rank: | 111,395 |
| Product dimensions: | 4.18(w) x 6.75(h) x 1.30(d) |
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If You Really Loved Me: A True Story of Desire and Murder
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I bought this book in part based on the high ratings. Big mistake. The book is unbearably long, Rule goes into the minutest detail over everything, with over 500 pages. The crime wasn't so noteworthy that it merits such a long and protracted treatment. Skip this book. If you want to read an Ann Rule book that is above average, read Small Sacrifices or the Stranger Beside Me. Not this one.
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Ann never goes wrong. Gray read!
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This book is fantastic. I read the back of the book and the name Cinnamon struck a chord in my memory. I remembered something in the news years ago about a young girl named Cinnamon and decided to read the book. This is a heart wrenching book about a man who cares only about himself. To think of a man who could let his own daughter take all of the blame for a crime he was involved in and allow her to be sentenced to prison at such a young age is despicable. Thanks to the two detectives who never gave up on Cinnamon her father's true self was revealed.
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This is one of Ann Rule's best books and I have read many of them. She really gets into the personalty of the people she writes about and knows how to tell the story of their crimes. She really understood what made David tick and was able to get that across to her readers. I love all of Ann's books!
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I watched the Lifetime movie about this story before reading the book, and I just HAD to know more. I couldn't believe what I saw in that movie, and when I was at the bookstore, I bought the book. Ann Rule tells everything; her research on all the people involved is tremendous--she told the story and all the background SO well. All the details of everyone's past are there, and Rule really gets the reader to feel emotion for the people connected to this crime. No one could make up the events in this story if they tried. I cried when I read the trial part--I felt so sorry for poor Cinnamon Brown and all she went through. I highly recommend!
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I actually read this book more than 10 years ago, but in reviewing books I've read, I remember it well. It's amazing the way the human mind can be bent in the name of "love" and the depths of depravity some minds have wound their way down to.
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This book is amazing. This is the very first book I have read of Ann Rule. A friend of mine loves her books and sent me this one. Now I need to readf the other books. I have read other crime books as well. My husband always wonders why I read these crime book. I think I want to be a cop someday,that's why. It's also sick to think a father would betray his own daughter and get away with a crime like this,even marrying teenagers while he's an adult.
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I say this book was verry dissapointing to me because it was about my family some what of it is ture and some is not. I read alot of Ann Rules books and I love them all. some one had recomended me this book not knowing what it was about I got it and started to read it.
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This book was really well written. Ann Rule decribes everything in such detail that you often have to check over your shoulder and see,if someone is watching you. I couldn't believe how one man could destroy so many lives and break up many families with his lies, selfishness, greed, money and more lies. The book is extremely well written but the people involved suffered many years of abuse and many ,many yearsof pain. My hearts go out to the victims.
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This was one of those books i would tell myself I was going to read for ten minutes then put it down and do something else. Instead i found myself reading for hours on end. This riveting case leaves you wondering how anyone can be so corupt and manipulative. This was by far the best book I have read in a long time and I will be buying more of Ann Rule's books soon.
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This is the first book ive ever read fully,i laughed i cried i was scared and happy....ive never thought that a book could bring so much emotion to me,my heart goes out to miss cinnamon :(. Awesome book!
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I am a 17 year old who was born in the house next door to the Brown's. Cinnamon was my babysitter when i was really little. My parents witnessed the arrest by the SWAT team and almost every cop car imagined. As the story was told to me by my parents has little confliction with the amazing story retold in words by Ann Rule. She did a wonderful job and it amazes me how small this world really is.
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This book was awesome.I could not put it down. I read this book because the crime happened about a mile from my house and now im hooked on Ann Rule books!!
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I first read this book in 1998, and have reread it cover to cover 6 times. I really appreciate Ms. Rule's update on the principles of this incredible story.
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This is a fascinating book. Even better, Ann Rule has written an Afterword 2002, which brings us up-to-date on what has happened to the principals in the case. As a true crime fan, I must say I've read most of Ann Rule's books and find this to be one of her best!
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One of the best books I've ever read. Once you pick this book up, you won't be able to set it down. Incredible!
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I FIRST SAW THIS STORY AS A MOVIE ON LIFETIME... I COULD NOT BELIEVE IT WAS ACTUALLY A TRUE STORY... HOW COULD A MAN DO THS TO HIS OWN CHILD?? ANNE RULE REALLY CAPTURED THE STORY MUCH BETTER THAN THE T.V. MOVIE. WAY TO GO ANNE!!
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I enjoyed reading this book, but I am left to wonder what happened to cinnamon? did she get out of prison in 1995? And did David stay in? How will I ever find out?
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I thought this book was very great. Ann rule told it how it happend. She didn't even stretch the truth. I think she is the best crime story writer in the world!
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I just finished the book. What a great story. Poor Linda, it seems she's still in that house. (picture of her in the window). I would like to see what Patti Baily is doing now, how her life has turned out. I hope David Brown stays alive in prison for a LONG time!!
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