ratings:
4.5/5 (235 ratings)
Length:
3 hours
Description
Interweaves eyewitness accounts, police records, and personal interviews into the chilling account of Diane Downs, a woman convicted of the ruthless shooting of her own three young children for the sake of passion. Book available.
About the author
Ann Rule wrote thirty-five New York Times bestsellers, all of them still in print. Her first bestseller was The Stranger Beside Me, about her personal relationship with infamous serial killer Ted Bundy. A former Seattle police officer, she used her firsthand expertise in all her books. For more than three decades, she was a powerful advocate for victims of violent crime. She lived near Seattle and died in 2015.
Reviews
What people think about Small Sacrifices
4.3235 ratings / 16 Reviews
Reader reviews
- (4/5)Fascinating and creepy, but it got a bit tedious and repetitive.
- (5/5)Ann does a great job at letting you glimps into the mind of the killer
- (3/5)The story was interesting but I didn’t love the narrator.
- (5/5)I loved it Anne rule is an absolute amazing writer
- (4/5)Well written but very sad story. I recommended this book.
- (3/5)It's a pretty solid book, though I feel like there's something lacking, storywise. I don't think this is as well written as it could have been.