Dan's Reviews > Small Sacrifices

Although her Ted Bundy book generated some criticism - if you like true crime books, it is a good read - this book Small Sacrifices came out seven years later in 1987. As for the controversy, Anne Rule had known Ted Bundy while he was committing his crimes, unbeknownst to her, and many in the public believed that Rule was profiting from her connection. Given how quickly she published the book, some of the criticism was valid. For Small Sacrifices she spent many years writing it. Fortunately she did not know Dianne Downs, so this one was heavy on the inside story with the detectives. But Dianne Downs talked all the time, so you feel like you know exactly who she was.

It is in my opinion as good a book as I have read in the true crime category. Many people wanted to know how a mother could shoot her three kids and then think she could get away with it. Rule lays it all out methodically and there are plenty of twists and turns including prison escapes.

If reading about highly disturbed people doesn't make you nauseous, you might like this book.

4.5 stars