Small Sacrifices: A True Story of Passion and Murder (Signet) (1987)

Ann Rule's shocking and powerful account of the destructive forces that drove Diane Downs, a beautiful young mother, to shoot her three young children in cold blood."Vivid....Extraordinary...a page-turner."--New York Times Book Review"Superb...[a] riveting detective story."--Indianapolis Star"A harrowing pathological portrait....A work of resonance and revelation with breath-stopping tension to the end." --Kirkus Reviews"Fascinating...grisly...un-putdownable." --New York Daily News"Excellent....One of the most detailed studies of a sociopath to dignify the true-crime circuit." --The San Francisco Chronicle"A raw docudrama of almost unbelievable intensity." --Booklist* Also by Ann Rule (in Signet's newly repackaged editions): The Stranger Be... full descriptionside Me (4/99), The I-5 Killer (6/99), The Want-Ad Killer (8/99), The Lust Killer (10/99) (less description)

Author: Ann Rule

Categories: True Accounts, Nonfiction