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Summary: My least favorite
Review: I read this book over a long period of time, All of Ann Rule's books captivate me, all but this one. I had to drag myself through it and it was the only book that I felt was not worthy of my time.
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Summary: ANN RULE FAN
Review: Ann's books are ALWAYS great reads! The best are "Dead by Sunset" "Small Sacrifices"& of course "Stranger beside Me". This most recent may not be 5 stars but I couldn't put it down and that's all that matters! I read all reviews & was intrigued by 2 reviews written by Liysa'a family members. I cannot imagine how it would feel to know your daughter is a cold blooded killer...I never doubted it. If Mr. De Witt does write the book- I will buy it and am anxious to hear what he may have to say. I believe that Ann Rule does her research and the book is the truth but if there is more to the story I'll be willing to listen.
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Summary: Another winner from my favorite author
Review: Ann Rule has done it again - I couldn't put it down.Liysa Norton makes Pat Allanson ("All She Ever Wanted") and Diane Downs ("Small Sacrifice") look like Girl Scouts by comparison. This woman attracted (and married) tall, handsome, talented men of means and still she wasn't satisfied! I'm infuriated she got only ten years for cold-blooded shooting Chris Northon in the head after drugging him and using a stun-gun on him. I hope she never, ever gets her hands on her two sons again before they reach adulthood and they can see her for what she is. Sad that there are people like this in the world.
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Summary: Is justice served?
Review: Thank you Ann for telling this tragic story, and bringing some kind of justice to our families.This was the hardest book I will ever read in my life time. I am Chris Northon's cousin and had known and loved him for 45 years.I lived in Bend,Oregon and taught swimmming to Liysa's oldest sweet boy along with his two other cousins. Chris also asked if I would be interested in cleaning his home when they went back and forth to Hawaii since it was such a filthy mess, I think he was really embarrassed. I personally read the emails that the FBI culled from Liysia's long lost (stolen-another lie) computer, which by the way is public knowledge to anyone from the court house. She writes Drowning is the best, but I need a backup and Daddy gave her a .38 revolver! Isn't that aiding and abetting? She should have been convicted 25 years to Life. The true facts are the facts and we don't get our beloved Chris back in 10 years when she gets out. Chris' little boy doesn't get his dad back.
Our lives will never be the same, but our love for him forever.
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Summary: disappointing for ann rule fans
Review: I've read and enjoyed all of Ann Rule's books, so when I saw this on the front table of the bookstore I bought it without even opening it up. Everyone knows what to expect from an Ann Rule book, right? Unfortunately, not this time. As another reader pointed out, the type is huge... always a bad sign of padding. It actually jars you when you open the book to start reading. What, it HAD to be 350+ pages? It's a compelling story but could have been half as long. The editor really let her down on this one. Choppy, disjointed, repetitive. Back and forth in time and place. Very hard to follow, and the writing is never smooth. Wait for it in paperback. Really.
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Summary: She Rules Again!
Review: This may not be the most enticingly written of Ann Rule's books, but I found it fascinating nonetheless. We need to remember that Ms. Rule is writing from a compilation of taped interviews, written pages, whatever she can get her hands on; it's not fiction where she has complete creative license! She has to put things in order and make sense of the story to bring us the in-depth psychological profiles of her characters, as she always does. And, in that, she hits home. Chris Northon is undoubtedly one of the most innocent of victims that I've ever encountered in Ann's books. He was simply a good man, with faults just like all of us, who tried to make his wife happy and who loved his son! How Mr. DeWitt in his review here, can claim that his daughter was a victim is beyond me when he aided and abetted her through the purchase of a gun, even considering her request for a silencer! As someone who has been on the wrong side of domestic violence, I can attest that Lyisa doesn't even come close to feeling what a victim feels. You feel shame and FEAR - you don't go around blabbing to everyone you see that you're being hurt and humiliated! AND, you generally wouldn't even see anyone to blab TO as most abusers keep a tight rein on the spouse. Her little "pool group" would be out of the question, as well as her constant and frequent flying to wherever she chose, and to meet men for business or friendship! An abuser would never allow a male friendship for his wife; she'd barely feel comfortable leaving the house without fear. She'd never goad or question or yell at him the way Lyisa does, not and live to tell about it. This was not the case with Lyisa Northon! She concocted a tale of being the victim everywhere she went, as well as via her multitudinous e-mails and writings. Fortunately, she planned Chris' murder in writing as well or she may never have been caught! She was as greedy and abusive as anyone I've ever read about, and though Ms. Rule credits her with being a good mother, that's something I disagree with too. What "good mother" kills a loving father and husband? I think Lyisa is very sick and needs help; I hope she gets some in prison because it's very scary that she'll be out again in ten years!
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Summary: Highly Recommend !
Review: This book I could not put down and finished it within a few days. You will get to know the characters so completely that once finished the book, you will want to find out more about the status of the case and how the young boys are doing. I feel absolutely terrible for the husband and wish he never under estimated his wife, the way he did. It's truly a sad tale and hopefully what one does (she) will return to them 10 fold.
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Summary: Wow
Review: Liysa DeWitt, a victim of domestic abuse?
Liysa DeWitt, a mentally ill woman?
HELL NO! Pure Bull Sh..
Liysa DeWitt = an idiot...a smart one that deserves not the ten years in prison but to be put in death row so she could serve as a lesson to other yet undiscovered killers like her. Socrates hated to see that people knew what's right and yet they carried on doing what was not right! Poor Chris when he met Liysa, she was married yet this fact wouldn't stop him from seeing her.SO WRONG! He slept with her despite that she was married to someone else.ABSOLUTELY WRONG...then Chris made the biggest mistake of all and married this sociopath.THE BIGGEST MISTAKE ONE COULD DO. Then she killed him in 'self-defense'... Rest in Peace Chris and with all due respect "she didn't kill you" - you've killed yourself by trusting a woman who was cheating her husband in front of her child. I mean what else could you expect from a greedy wh...?
That one day she'd have enough??? ... This book will absolutely shock you. It'll make you mad and very upset for seeing what's happening and what'll happen in the future and yet there's nothing you can possibly do to protect the innocent people in this drama.
The most shocking fact of all is that this idiot woman got only ten years sentence! I wonder if the Judge got brainwashed by the idiots excuses too? Well, one thing is for sure, this idiot will never change and may Good Luck save us and our loved ones not to meet and have anything to do with her when she comes out from her only house she is now. "Heart full of lies" is another page turner by the Queen of True Crime books, Anne Rule.
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Summary: Shorter than Usual but still Excellent
Review: I agree with some of the earlier comments about how short this book is when compared to some of her other works (wow, what big type!) BUT I found it as captivating as ever. Slight SPOILER alert: It differs in that it's focus is a woman who kills her husband (who exaggerated the conditions of her marriage). Her other female focused books were, tragically, about how they killed, or tried to kill their children (Bitter Harvest, Small Sacrifices). Call me a huge fan. Ann Rule, thank you for providing human stories with tact and care.
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Summary: Rule delivers still another compelling character!
Review: Ann Rule, perhaps my favorite true crime writer, knows
how to pick compelling characters to write about . . . in her
latest effort, HEART FULL OF LIES, she made me glad
that I never met one of them: Liysa Northon . . . this was a woman
who seemingly had it all, yet kept going through guys as
she searched for still more money and property . . . it
seemed in Chris Northon, she had finally met the man
who could give her everything she wanted . . . yet that
did not turn out to be the case. Amazingly, Liysa Northon only received a sentence of ten
years for first using drugging her husband and then using
a stun-gun before shooting him in cold blood . . . I got caught
up in her tale, virtually from page one, and was disappointed
when the taped version of the book ended . . . Blair Brown's
excellent job of narration most likely added to my enjoyment.
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