Best-selling author Ann Rule to sign books at Mary Willis Library Friday evening at 5

A best-selling true-crime author will be signing her new book with

tragic local connection in Washington tomorrow evening.

Ann Rule, author of 27 New York Times bestsellers, and considered American's number one true crime writer, will be at the Mary Willis Library Friday evening to speak and to sign copies of her latest book, To Late to Say Goodbye, about the tragic murders of Dolly Hearn of Washington, and Jennifer Corbin by Georgia dentist Dr. Barton Corbin.

Rule will speak at 5 p.m. with the book signing to follow. Refreshments will be served.

Joining Rule will be author Donna Anders, a writer of psychological suspense mysteries for Pocket Books. Her latest is Sketching Evil.

Ann Rule has always been fascinated by the law. Following in the footsteps of her grandfather and uncle, who were Michigan sheriffs, Rule was a Seattle, Washington, police officerafter she graduated from the University of Washington, although she has been a full-time true crime writer since 1969.

"With every book I write, I realize more and more how many lives are affected by one cruel and conscienceless person who decides to take another human being's life," Rule said. "Murder is not only a matter of a single death; there are many 'little deaths' among those left behind by a homicide as it replicates its evil in countless lives, changing them forever."

With her trademark attention to detail and talent for sharply-drawn characters and riveting narrative, Ann Rule, in To Late to Say Goodbye - A True Story of Murder and Betrayal (on sale at the Mary Willis Library, along with the just-released paperback edition), tells the stories of Dolly Hearn and Jenn Corbin, whose separate relationships with Barton Corbin, though 14 years apart, ended in a strikingly similar manner: with a gunshot wound to the head. Though both deaths were initially ruled suicides - a method of suicide extremely rare in females - local investigators and both women's families suspected differently.

Seldom in the annals of criminal history has there been a double murder case with so many convolutions - internet scandal, forensic science break-thoughts in ballistics, technology and blood-spatter evidence, long-harbored jealousy and infidelity, stalking and the inexplicable rationale behind the actions of a sociopathic killer.

For additional information or directions, call the library at 706- 678-7736.

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