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Released on Thursday, December 09, 2004 at about 10:00:00 PM BX time (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) at Media Mail in Fellow Bookcrosser, A Book Relay Controlled Releases.

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Mailing out as part of book relay.

Got this through a Book Relay! I haven't read anything by Ann Rule yet and had been wanting to, Thanks!

In perhaps the first true-crime book written at the victim's request, Ann Rule untangles a web of lies and brutality that culminated in the murder of Sheila Blackthorne Bellush -- a woman Rule never met, but whose shocking story she now chronicles with compassion, exacting detail, and unvarnished candor. Although happily ensconced in a loving second marriage, and a new family of quadruplets, Sheila never truly escaped the vicious enslavement of her ex-husband, multi-millionaire Allen Blackthorne, a handsome charmer -- and a violent, controlling sociopath who subjected Sheila to unthinkable abuse in their marriage, and terrorized her for a decade after their divorce. When Sheila was slain in her home, in the presence of her four toddlers, authorities raced to link the crime to Blackthorne, the man who vowed to monitor Sheila's every move in his obsessive quest for power and revenge.

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Sending to Pyan! Enjoy the books!

What a delightful surprise to find this book along with several others as a RABCK in with the bookbox. Thank you!

Ann Rule has written 18 true crime books, but this was the first one that was commissioned by the victim. Sheila Blackthorne, who also had a premonition that she would die at the age of 35, asked her sister and friends to have Ann Rule write her story if anything ever happened to her. She feared that her ex-husband, Allen, would kill her eventually. When she was savagely murdered with her four quadruplet toddlers in the house, those close to her immediately suspected her ex-husband.

Excellent reading and appreciate the research that went into this book. Couldn't put it down.

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Released to Ealisaid's Wishlist Bookbox.

Catching this one from the Wish List Book Box for my daughter, AngelfireStar. Thanks.

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going to AngelfireStar

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