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A Fever in the Heart dissects an explosive triangle that led to obsession and murder in a small town in the northwest of America. Ann Rule reveals the story of an alluring wife and the two men desperate for her love; a story with a bizarre and deadly twist that no one could have suspected. In this and several other riveting true-crime cases from her personal files, Ann Rule masterfully probes the delusions of the criminal mind, the fateful circumstances and the unrelenting investigative forces at work in the aftermath of murder.… (altro)
Well written with so many details! This I like. The details of the trial , much of it word for word kept me reading for hours, I like the update at the end with how things have turned out for many involved years later. ( )
This story is about a love triangle in my hometown of Yakima, Washington. I actually know many of the characters and my Grandmother worked in the courts when this was a "current event". I think it was so difficult to get through because I suddenly had another perspective about people and situations I didn't want to have. I think the writing and research was good, just for me... a weird feeling when I read it. ( )
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In tragic life, God wot
No villain need be! Passions win the plot;
We are betrayed by what is false within.
--George Meredith, Modern Love
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For my friend Olive Morgan Blankenbaker, born 1910, and for my mother, Sophie Hansen Stackhouse, 1906-1995, two brave women who lost their only sons much too soon.
They taught me to survive tragedy and loss and how to grow old with grace and dignity.
Incipit
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In 1975 the Friday after Thanksgiving in Yakima was icy and bleak. - A Fever In The Heart
The sounds coming through the bedroom wall in the duplex apartment in suburban Salem, Oregon, were too loud and too disturbing for anyone to sleep through. - The Highway Accident
Marty Sells is the District Attorney of Colombia County, Oregon. - Murder Without A Body
When her life was viewed in terms of worldly goods, Ruth Logg, had everything. - I'll Love You Forever
It was a little after eight A.M. on Monday, the first of May, 1979, when Sam Brand, a farmer who lives in an isolated, wooded rural area near Roy, Washington, heard someone pounding frantically on his front door. - Black Leather
James Ruzicka and Carl Harp were convicted killers of the 1970's - and rapists too - several times over, but they never faced the hangman's noose. - Mirror Images
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This is for you, Olive. - A Fever In The Heart
Ironically, he now lives the life that Lori dreamed of. - The Highway Accident
And because of the silent testimony of Vicki Brown's own blood, that just wasn't enough. - Murder Without A Body
Perhaps she knows, however, that those daughters saw their quest through to the end and gave her the only gift they could: justice. - I'll Love You Forever
And he does carry that nightmare for the rest of his days. - Black Leather
And in the end, could not they both have been considered "madmen"? - Mirror Images f
A Fever in the Heart dissects an explosive triangle that led to obsession and murder in a small town in the northwest of America. Ann Rule reveals the story of an alluring wife and the two men desperate for her love; a story with a bizarre and deadly twist that no one could have suspected. In this and several other riveting true-crime cases from her personal files, Ann Rule masterfully probes the delusions of the criminal mind, the fateful circumstances and the unrelenting investigative forces at work in the aftermath of murder.
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