The Want-Ad Killer (True Crime) by Ann Rule

The Want-Ad Killer (edition 1983)

by Ann Rule, Andy Stack (Contributor)

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Title:	The Want-Ad Killer
Authors:	Ann Rule
Other authors:	Andy Stack (Contributor)
Info:	Signet (1983), Mass Market Paperback, 304 pages
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Tags:	true crime, non-fiction, Ann Rule, serial killers, rape, muder, Harvey Carignan

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I usually love any book by Ann Rule, this one not so much. It was just a plain true story. Nothing like any of her other books. (

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djts5420 | May 26, 2011 |

An interesting read. The story is well-balanced with personal facts about the killer and the victims and makes the problems with the justice system clear without being preachy. (

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butterflyknit | Sep 7, 2008 |

Ann Rule is very fair to both victim and villian in her writing. This story focuses around a young, innocent girl, Kathy Miller, and her mother's premonition of her fate. The result is heartbreaking and suspenseful. (

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phyllisd | Jul 1, 2008 |

It starts with the heartbreaking murder of Kathy Sue Miller, then follows the police investigation as her killer commits more crimes, until his arrest and conviction. Written in a straightforward, unflinching style, Rule lets the horror of the crimes speak for itself. Very readable and gripping. (

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0451166884, Mass Market Paperback)

After his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence and continued to manipulate, rape, and bludgeon women to death--using want ads to lure his young female victims.

And time after time, justice was thwarted by a killer whose twisted legal genius was matched only by his sick savagery.

Here, complete with the testimony of women who suffered his unspeakable sexual abuses and barely escaped with their lives, and of the police who at last put him behind bars, is one of the most shattering and thought-provoking true-crime stories of our time.

* Includes 8 pages of photographs
* From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Sacrifices, Lust Killer, The Stranger Beside Me, and The I-5 Killer

* "Rule has an instinct for suspense."--Washington Post Book World

* "Rule springs surprises and revelations with a novelist's skill."--Seattle Times

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