Small Sacrifices: A True Story of Passion and Murder

Ann Rule's shocking and powerful account of the destructive forces that drove Diane Downs, a beautiful young mother, to shoot her three young children in cold blood.

"Vivid....Extraordinary...a page-turner."--New York Times Book Review

"Superb...[a] riveting detective story."--Indianapolis Star

"A harrowing pathological portrait....A work of resonance and revelation with breath-stopping tension to the end." --Kirkus Reviews

"Fascinating...grisly...un-putdownable." --New York Daily News

"Excellent....One of the most detailed studies of a sociopath to dignify the true-crime circuit." --The San Francisco Chronicle

"A raw docudrama of almost unbelievable intensity." --Booklist

* Also by Ann Rule (in Signet's newly repackaged editions): The Stranger Beside Me (4/99), The I-5 Killer (6/99), The Want-Ad Killer (8/99), The Lust Killer (10/99)