I’m always hoping that Ann Rule will return to her old style of writing, so I keep purchasing her books.
Unfortunately, that’s not the case with her latest release But I Trusted You, volume 14 in her true crime short stories books.
The first story (and the one which accounts for one-half of the book) is about Teresa Gaethe-Leonard, a woman who was willing to kill her husband so that she could start a new life with her (not-so-new) lover and young daughter.
And as it usually goes, the plan just didn’t pan out because…well, she got caught.
While this is a story that is all too common today in our newspapers and news broadcasts, Teresa is definitely different.
A woman who lived in a world where whatever she envisioned, so shall it be.
Her history, her plans, her overall life is an interesting case study into pathological liars, spoiled brats, and psychotic women.
The remaining six stories, however, should be used more as time-fillers considering that they are not detailed, intense crime accounts.
Ann Rule’s fourteenth volume of true crime short stories is mediocre reading at best. Hopefully this low-rate writing will end with the release of a single story book in May 2010 titled In the Still of the Night: The Strange Death of Ronda Reynolds.
