Type: Hardcover

Condition: Used, Good. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Light rubbing wear on the dust cover, spine and page edges. No folded pages, no notes, no underlines or markings on the pages.

Details: If You Really Loved Me: A True Story of Desire and Murder, author Ann Rule

ISBN: 0-671-68835-9

Pages: 493

Published: 1991

A spellbinding true-life story of greed,

sexual obsession, manipulation and

murder.

In the dark hours before dawn on March 19,

1985, in a quiet house on a quiet street in Garden

Grove, California, 23-year-old Linda Marie

Brown died a most unquiet death. Beautiful and

blond, she was the wife of a millionaire com-

puter genius, the mother of an infant daughter, a

woman who apparently possessed everything

she ever dreamed of. And yet someone fired two

bullets between her breasts as she slept in her

own bed unaware of the danger around her. The

cruel crime seemed to offer no rational explana-

tions. The only two people in the house were

Linda's 17-year-old sister, Patti Bailey, and her

14-year-old stepdaughter, Cinnamon Brown.

David Brown, Linda's husband, who was absent

at the time of the murder, wept bitter tears when

he learned he had lost the woman he had loved

since she was fifteen. Detectives questioned all

three, and one was convicted of the crime. The

case was closed. Still, hard questions went

unanswered.

Veteran investigators Fred McLean and Jay

Newell had seen the bleakest aspects of human

behavior in their years in law enforcement.

They knew that things were seldom what they

appeared to be. Even so, they had never encoun-

tered an investigation as challenging as the

Linda Brown murder case. Who had wanted her

dead? And why? And who had actually pulled

the trigger of the death gun? Each path they took

led to another more circuitous trail. As they dis-

entangled lies and truths, they found that Linda

Brown had lived and died in a world of perverse

love, dark secrets, and evil machinations hidden

behind a blandly normal facade. They un-

earthed proof of sexual obsession, greed, lust,

and unimaginable mind games.

At length, their investigation resulted in ar-

rests. In gripping courtroom testimony, the ter-

rible truth behind Linda Brown's murder finally

emerged. Even so it was a perilous game. Newell

and Orange County Deputy District Attorney

Joffrey Robinson, targeted by a sociopathic

killer who would stop at nothing to escape pun-

ishment, came close to losing their own lives.