This book of Ann Rule is better categorized as a fiction book than a true crime book. However, the idea for this book came from a story that díd happen once for real. Ann Rule later wrote about this true story as part of her True Crime files series, but she always continued protecting the identity of the girl involved.In this book the real girl is portrayed as an adult female. She and her cop husband make a trip into the mountains and encounter a dangerous man.Main subjects: murder, abduction and brainwashing.Although I prefer Ann writing true crime books and not fiction, I still really appreciated what she made of it.I wasn't disappointed in the least this was a novel and different from her usual genre. I also didn't think this was badly written or not good enough. Ann's just very detailed in her writings. For some it may mean the story goes too slow, but I prefer the indepth.For me the way she described the brainwashing aka Stockholm syndrome was believable. She also worked out the main characters well and their relations to each other. Nothing wrong about this book.
I picked this one up from the library. I happened to walk by a shelf of books, and there it was. I saw "Ann Rule" and thought "hey, I love her books, I'll grab this too" and added it to my pile of 3 or 4 books I already planned on checking out.It wasn't until I was a few chapters in that I actually looked at the cover and saw where it says "A NOVEL". lol I was slightly confused at the beginning, thinking this was another true crime story.Once I figured out it was fiction things started to make more sense.I thought it started out very slowly, too slowly actually, but it being an Ann Rule book, I gave it more of a shot than I would some unknown author. I'm glad I did, but I'm still not happy with the length of time it took for the story to really get going.I can't honestly say I buy the whole Stockholm Syndrome thing either. I thought that part of the story came on way too fast.I guess I'd say overall, I liked it. The idea of the story is great, but I can't say the style of writing was great.
