Brad Cunningham was handsome, brilliant, a high-school hero in his native Seattle, a football star at the University of Washington. His family background was unusual, with a Native American mother of whom he was ashamed and an Anglo father who was contemptuous of women. As an adolescent, Brad was violent with his sisters and his mother. This pattern continued in his first, second and third marriages but reached its apogee with his fourth wife, Cheryl Keeton, a highly successful lawyer by whom he fathered three sons. When their marriage collapsed and she sought custody of their children, Brad, a bank executive, threatened her; in September 1986, she was found bludgeoned to death in her car on an Oregon highway. The case remained unresolved until Cheryl Keeton's estate filed a civil suit for damages against Brad in 1991. A criminal trial followed in 1993, in which Brad was found guilty of murder and sentenced to a minimum of 22 years. Rule (Small Sacrifices) provides a perceptive character analysis of a malignant, self-centered, charismatic con artist. It's a chilling, haunting portrait.
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Ann Rae Rule
Ann Rule nasceu em 1931, em Michigan (Estados Unidos). Quando passava as férias de verão com os avós, ela ajudava a preparar as refeições para os detentos da prisão, e costumava se perguntar por que pessoas que pareciam tão amigáveis estavam trancafiadas atrás das grades. Esse foi o começo da curiosidade que durou toda a sua vida sobre os “porquês” por trás do comportamento criminoso. Todos os seus livros exploram os motivos por trás dos casos de primeira página sobre os quais ela fez as coberturas. Quando cresceu, tornou-se policial de Seattle, e também foi assistente social do Departamento de Serviço Social do estado de Washington. De 1969 até o fim de sua vida se dedicou integralmente à carreira de escritora, publicando 33 livros e mais de mil reportagens, em grande parte sobre casos criminais. Ann Rule faleceu de insuficiência cardíaca em 26 de julho de 2015, aos 83 anos. Conheça os livros publicados
38 Livros
11 Seguidores
Michigan, Estados Unidos