The bestselling author of THE STRANGER BESIDE ME, DEAD BY SUNSET and BITTER HARVEST, Ann Rule is an acknowledged expert on violent crimes. In this fifth volume of fascinating true cases, she explores the circumstances that has driven ordinary people to cross society's boundaries and commit the desperate act of murder. In THE END OF THE DREAM, Ann Rule chillingly profiles the workings of a criminal mind, and confirms she is the world's number-one writer of true crime.