I have read many of Ann Rule's true crime books, and I have had to resort to reading them only sporadically as the prose is so formulaic that I become numb to the story she tells. This type of reading really is a guilty pleasure, spent on days when we have blizzards, and I end up finishing her books fairly quickly. It is like binge watching TV shows on Netflix. The only downside is that the problem with true crime is that the murder/crime ever happened in the first place. It was easy to dislike the murdering husband in this newer book by Rule, as he was an insensitive dentist by trade who relished sticking it financially to his patients. Jenn Corbin was trying to move on with her life and get away from him when she apparently commits suicide a few weeks before the holiday season. Rule traces the investigation right from the very beginning and you are along for the ride as investigators build their case. This is no story like A Stranger Beside Me, Rule's book about Ted Bundy, who she actually worked at a suicide hot line with. Yet it is fast, and still better than some of the Investigate Discovery shows about forensic science and the like.
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