If You Really Loved Me by Ann Rule

If You Really Loved Me (Time Warner Paperbacks Ann Rule True Crime)

Ann Rule's Gripping True Story of Desire, Manipulation and Murder in Southern California

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: If You Really Loved Me: A True Story of Desire and Murder
• Author: Ann Rule
• Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks, London
• Publication Date: 2003
• ISBN-13: 9780751503395
• ISBN-10: 0751503398
• Edition Details: First published in Great Britain in 1992 by Warner Books. Reprinted by Time Warner Paperbacks in 2003.
• Binding: Publisher's illustrated glossy paperback wrappers, perfect bound.
• Physical Format: Mass-market softcover, roughly 180 x 110 mm, 493 pages.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Very Good (VG)
• Exterior / Wraps: The glossy illustrated wrappers are bright, with a clean front cover and a clean back cover free of obvious marks. The cream spine shows vertical creasing and stress lines along its length, consistent with a previously read copy.
• Interior: The text block is tight, with evenly toned cream pages consistent with age. The pages examined are clean, with no foxing, markings or tears.
• The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued)

Synopsis & Historical Value

If You Really Loved Me: A True Story of Desire and Murder is one of Ann Rule's Southern California true-crime studies. It centres on the 1985 shooting of Linda Marie Brown, the young wife of a wealthy computer entrepreneur, who was killed in her bed.

The narrative follows the detectives' investigation into her hidden life of dark secrets and manipulation, through to the arrests and the courtroom testimony. The book moves from the trial of the businessman's daughter to a detective's follow-up inquiry, which exposed the man behind the crime. Brown himself was convicted in 1990 of masterminding his wife's murder.

This is a reading copy of a popular late twentieth-century true-crime title in its British paperback form, and a useful addition to a collection of Ann Rule's work.

Author Profile: Ann Rule

Ann Rule (1931 to 2015) was an American true-crime writer. After a brief spell at the Seattle Police Department at the age of 21, she began writing for magazines such as True Detective in 1969 and remained a full-time true-crime author until her death.

Her debut, The Stranger Beside Me, launched her career. She went on to write more than 30 books, many of them New York Times bestsellers, including Green River, Running Red and Small Sacrifices.