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Inside a circle of trusted friends...one was a killer.Jerry Harris was a self-made California millionaire who, at age forty-four, had it all: booming businesses, yachts, a mansion, a beautiful wife, and a voice to rival Elvis. No one who knew this well-liked, generous man could make sense of his sudden disappearance one autumn night. On a final phone call to his brother from his Mercedes, Jerry breathed a muffled oath - then the line went dead. For Jerry's wife, Susan, it was just the show more beginning of an unwavering, eight-year search for the truth behind her husband's vanishing.Through exclusive access to an FBI agent inside the investigation, Ann Rule unmasks a man driven by malevolence and hidden jealousy to destroy Jerry Harris' magnificent business empire. She expertly profiles a criminal mind that stopped at nothing in a scheme of greed and violence. With the riveting power of a Greek tragedy, Rule reveals the dark underside of an all-American success story, and a wife's ultimate triumph of justice in the name of love. Including other unforgettable accounts of true crime, this is Ann Rule at her chilling best. show lessTags
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I have been meaning to read this book for years. I always stopped and started it though because the sample did not hold my interest. I have to say, the full book did not either. I think the main problem is that Rule ends up romanticizing Jerry and Susan Harris to the point that neither of them felt real. She also seemed to handwave a lot of people who did have critical things to say about Jerry and how he handled his business. That of course is not to say that he should have been murdered. I just thought that Rule usually does a better job of showing a fuller picture of the victims, murderers, and investigators in her other books than she did in this one.
"In the Name of Love" follows the story of Jerry Harris and how his wife Susan show more refused to stop investigating who/what was behind his disappearance and murder. Rule begins the book on how the two first met and how Jerry went about "love bombing" Susan. I have to say as other reviewers did, that I just did not like Jerry and felt indifferent towards Susan. She didn't seem to have any life or ambition outside of Jerry and most of the book kept going on about their looks (they were okay people, not super models) and how Jerry spoiled her and why Susan didn't work and wanted to be there for Jerry. It just does not sound like a life that I would ever want to live.
When the book moves to Jerry's businesses and his ideas and how he started to make money the flow slows down. Most of the businesses (outside of the plant and nightclubs) sounded iffy and I thought that Rule did way too much trying to make it seem as if others were doing illegal things and Jerry just had no idea.
When the book moves into Jerry's friends and associates and his constant issues with one of them, you pretty much know who murdered him and why.
After Jerry's disappearance the book slows down again. As a reader you are just ready for the book to get on so to speak.
From there the book becomes boring and painful. Reading about the murderers and their plans and the back and forth and dialogue did nothing for me.
The ending I thought was just a long slow slide of eh okay and just feeling glad that the book was over. show less
"In the Name of Love" follows the story of Jerry Harris and how his wife Susan show more refused to stop investigating who/what was behind his disappearance and murder. Rule begins the book on how the two first met and how Jerry went about "love bombing" Susan. I have to say as other reviewers did, that I just did not like Jerry and felt indifferent towards Susan. She didn't seem to have any life or ambition outside of Jerry and most of the book kept going on about their looks (they were okay people, not super models) and how Jerry spoiled her and why Susan didn't work and wanted to be there for Jerry. It just does not sound like a life that I would ever want to live.
When the book moves to Jerry's businesses and his ideas and how he started to make money the flow slows down. Most of the businesses (outside of the plant and nightclubs) sounded iffy and I thought that Rule did way too much trying to make it seem as if others were doing illegal things and Jerry just had no idea.
When the book moves into Jerry's friends and associates and his constant issues with one of them, you pretty much know who murdered him and why.
After Jerry's disappearance the book slows down again. As a reader you are just ready for the book to get on so to speak.
From there the book becomes boring and painful. Reading about the murderers and their plans and the back and forth and dialogue did nothing for me.
The ending I thought was just a long slow slide of eh okay and just feeling glad that the book was over. show less
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Ann Rule was born on October 22, 1931 in Lowell, Michigan. She received a bachelor's degree from the University of Washington in creative writing, with minors in psychology, criminology and penology. She began writing for magazines including True Detective, Master Detective, Inside Detective, Front Page Detective, and Office Detective in 1969. show more During her lifetime, she wrote more than 30 books including The Stranger Beside Me; Green River, Running Red; Practice to Deceive; Ann Rule's Crime Files series, and Lying in Wait. She died on July 26, 2015 at the age of 83. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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