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Written by Ann Rule - audio book performed by Blair Brown - Abridged Nonfiction - 5 COMPACT DISCS - 6 hours

Publisher, Simon & Schuster Audioworks (August 2006)

A True Crime

An idyllic Hawaiian wedding held the promise of a wonderful future for Chris Northon, an airline pilot, a confirmed bachelor-turned-devoted family man; and Liysa, a loving mother and aspiring Hollywood screenwriter. But few, including Chris, had seen Liysa's other side and no one anticipated the fatal outcome of a family camping trip in an Oregon forest. Liysa soon revealed herself as a victim of domestic abuse that culminated at the campsite, where she shot Chris in self-defense. But crime scene evidence led detectives to wonder if Liysa was a killer, not a victim.

About the Author: Ann Rule is a former Seattle policewoman and the author of twenty-one New York Times bestsellers, including eight Crime Files volumes: Last Dance, Last Chance; Empty Promises; A Rage to Kill; The End of the Dream; In the Name of Love; A Fever in the Heart; You Belong to Me; and A Rose for Her Grave. Cases from this acclaimed series were anthologized by Ann Rule in Without Pity. She is also the author of Heart Full of Lies, the bestselling portrayal of an ambitious woman's murder of her airline pilot husband; Every Breath You Take, the only true-crime book written at the request of the murder victim; And Never Let Her Go, the nationally renowned case of deadly seducer Thomas Capano, which was made into a CBS miniseries; and Bitter Harvest, which unravels the shattering case of Debora Green, a doctor and loving mother driven to lethal acts of vengeance. Her other bestsellers include If You Really Loved Me, Everything She Ever Wanted, Small Sacrifices, Dead by Sunset, The Want-Ad Killer, The I-5 Killer, Lust Killer; and her classic The Stranger Beside Me, the unnerving chronicle of Rule's dawning horror as she realized her friend and coworker, Ted Bundy, was a serial killer. She has also written a #1 New York Times bestselling novel, Possession.

Ann Rule has testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee and regularly presents seminars to law enforcement agencies, including the FBI Academy, as well as district attorneys and victim support groups. She served on the U.S. Justice Department task force that set up VICAP (the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program now in place at FBI headquarters) to track and trap serial killers. She lives near Seattle, Washington.

About the Narrator: Blair Brown appeared on Broadway in Copenhagen (Tony Award), Cabaret, James Joyce's The Dead and Arcadia. Her film credits include Dogville, Space Cowboys, and Altered States. On television, she starred in The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd and has appeared on ER, Smallville and CSI: Miami. Ms. Brown has narrated over 50 documentary films and audiobooks.