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Reader Reviews Don't Let The Title Turn You Away, September 25, 2003 Reviewer: Matthew Patton from Deltona, FL The title is dreadful, like something out of the true-crime magazines where Ann Rule got her start as a writer under the name Andy Stack (the pseudonym under which this book was originally published). But the book itself is compact, powerful, and filled with a kind of terrible sorrow for the destruction of many lives, beginning with Jerry Brudos, whose hateful treatment at the hands of his mother slowly but surely transformed him into a vicious sexual predator, and continuing with his murders of seveal Oregon women and the terrible damage done to their grieving families (the body of his first victim was never even found). Also, the terrible struggle of Brudos' wife Darcy, first with her marriage to a man she loved but began to fear, and finally with the Oregan legal system, which put her on trial as a co-conspirator in her husband's crimes. It is this ability to portray the humanity of the people in this case that transforms what might have simply been a grisly paperback exploitation of human cruelty and misery into a serious and worthwhile book.
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