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Green River, Running Red
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
- Length: 19 hrs and 23 mins
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Summary
In the most extraordinary journey Ann Rule has ever undertaken, America's master of true crime has spent more than two decades researching the story of the Green River Killer, who murdered more than 49 young women.
Green River, Running Red is a harrowing account of a modern monster, a killer who walked among us undetected. It is also the story of his quarry - of who these young women were and who they might have become. A chilling look at the darkest side of human nature, this is the most important and most personal audiobook of Ann Rule's long career.
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- Squeaky Joe
- 05-07-18
Not for the faint-hearted
True crime writer Ann Rule tells the story of the Green River killer in this extraordinary book. Researching the case for more than twenty years, she later discovered the perpetrator had carried out many of his grisly crimes close to where she lived and had even attended her book signings. America’s most prolific serial killer is known to have murdered at least 49 women and evaded detection until he was caught in 2001. The author sifted through thousands of documents, police records and photographs to bring this harrowing tale to life, detailing the lives of the many victims, their stories and their deaths.
This is not a book for the faint-hearted – packed with gory details and scene-of-crime minutiae, Rule outlines how the police investigation team went through many permutations before they eventually apprehended the killer. At a time when DNA evidence was virtually unheard of, the Green River Task Force struggled to find links that might tie any of the victims to a particular person. Fighting the quirks and whims of political enthusiasm for the case, the detectives were often left with only a skeleton crew, and some members even followed up leads in their spare time.
This is a disturbing story of an apparently mild-mannered but deeply troubled individual and the trail of bodies he left across King County, Washington.
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- jennifer
- 16-10-12
Green River Running Red Ann Rule
Ann Rule delivers again,what a fantastic story,just like Dead Before Sunset a gripping true story of a man that committed so many crimes and got away with it for so long,the crime task force worked so hard but left so many holes in the case Ann explains everything to detail this is my third book by this author and i have enjoyed everyone,Highly recommended.
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- Ray
- 04-07-12
Nightmare Narration
Great book but the very perculiar narration was a major irritation to the point where it distracted from the story for me far too often.
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- L. BETTLES
- 28-02-15
Great Book
Very detailed and gripping. This is my first book by the author, ignore other review narration is clear and concise and a pleasure to listen to.
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- Jake Dalton
- 18-10-16
True crime for housewives.
Plods through the story of the Green River Killer. Overly descriptive and convoluted. Unnecessarily sentimental.
Entire chapters are devoted to barely relevant events that could be summed up in a paragraph. A psychic, for example, has a lead role in the tale, though this person seems barely relevant and a side note in the actual facts of the case. The author seems to enjoy mentioning needless information about politics, I'm assuming to attempt to place the reader into the time and place. This seems like such a pointless literary device that feels like reading someone's school work.
The author bombards you with more names and descriptions of locations than could possibly be remembered, to the extent that any obvious timeline has been lost, and any scale of the murders is impossible to gauge. After all the waffling, chapters often end abruptly with no conclusion or summation at all.
The narration is fitting, in that it is also poor. It sounds like you are listening to an episode of "Murder She Wrote".
I wish I could like this book, because it's such an interesting case, but it seems to be more about the author that the Green River Killer.
Be prepared to be disappointed.
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- Lee
- 23-04-18
True crime
As a fan of true crime I was surprised that I had never heard of the Green river killer. A truly harrowing account of a vicious, pathetic, cowardly man. The book was slow to begin with, but picked up around the middle. good narration throughout. If you are interested in true crime you will enjoy this book.
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- taborah Summers-cooper
- 23-07-20
Another Ann Rule classic
Well written as you would expect, compassionate, informative, well researched well worth a read .
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- sav
- 16-03-20
Good, but too long
Good book , exciting to listen too, just too much information on the backgrounds of the victims? IMO
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- Abc
- 15-03-20
Great research, but far too long
Read this after The Stranger Beside Me, which was brilliant. I didn't really like the way the narrative shifted in this, might work better when reading, but for audio I found it jarring. Also, the narrator consistently mispronounced words, which was a bit distracting - not accent related, just completely mispronounced. There were a lot of characters in this too and the length of it made it hard to keep up with who was who.
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- Bilberry
- 26-06-19
journey along the green river
the boat bobbles up and down, calm waters lap against the side
above green mosses hang from twisted branches reflecting sun light back above
the river is placid and I fall asleep, in the distance a motorway sounds
Then i wake up, there are dark clouds, the shadows are lengthened, and the strong breezes make leaves fall around,
In the distance i can just make out some desperate cries, but i cannot see anyone.
then after a short while it calms again, the sun comes out and in the trees birds sing, i settle back down to sleep
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