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How long does it take to read Kiss Me, Kill Me?

Ann Rule's Crime Files Vol. 9 (Ann Rule's Crime Files)

Ann Rule

Kiss Me, Kill Me by Ann Rule takes about 7 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 7 hours 16 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2004. 396 pages, about 108,900 words.

15 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 12 hours 6 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 7 hours 16 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 32 minutes

The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

The dark side of love is no fairy tale... And while we may like to believe that crimes of the heart only victimize those who aren't careful, this page-turning collection of must-read accounts will convince you otherwise. America's #1 true-crime writer, Ann Rule reveals how lovers become predators, how sex and lust can push ordinary people to desperate acts, and how investigators and forensics experts work to unravel the most entangled crimes of passion. Extracting behind-the-scenes details, Rule makes these volatile relationships utterly real, and masterfully re-creates the ill-fated chains of events in such cases as the ex-Marine and martial arts master who seduced vulnerable women and then destroyed their lives...the killer whose calling card was a single blood-red rose...the faithless wife who manipulated and murdered without conscience...the blind date that set the stage for a killer's brutality...and more. In every case, the victim -- young and innocent or older and experienced -- unknowingly trusted a stranger with the sociopathic skill to hide their dark motives, until it was too late to escape a web of deadly lies, fatal promises, and homicidal possession.

Subjects: Criminals, True Crime, Crime, Investigation, Criminology, Murder

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