Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal

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A charming and briliant dentist,
tied to two murders nearly two decades apart....
A twisting case in which past and present colide....

Go inside one of the most compelling double homicide investigations of our time with Ann Rule, who was given exclusive access inside the case of Bart Corbin, the "handsome twin" responsible for murder times two.

Bart Corbin appeared to share an idyllic life with his pretty wife, Jennifer: a home in an upscale Atlanta suburb, two adorable young sons. But there were secrets below the surface -- including an affair of Bart's that drove Jenn to look for love on the Internet -- that would prove deadly on the December morning Jenn was found with a single gunshot wound to her head. Police suspected suicide, but her disbelieving family knew Jenn had been excited to move on from Bart with someone she had met online. As disturbing clues emerged, a relentless county investigator dredged up a shattering revelation: fourteen years earlier, Bart Corbin's former girlfriend, lovely dental student Dolly Hearn, also died -- a gunshot wound to her head that was ruled a suicide. It was a chilling link in the chain that would ensnare the remorseless killer behind both tragic deaths: Bart Corbin.

And if you think you know everything about this outright shocking case, discover the truth behind the headlines -- and one incredible irony on which the entire case turned -- in

Too Late to Say Goodbye

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5 out of 5 stars

Ann Rule is a master of true crime writing! June 21, 2007
54 out of 57 found this review helpful

I read Ann Rule's latest offering within a few days, it is that riveting, and heartbreaking. Ann Rule, who has given us past works of true crime, does an amazing job of piecing together the story of two women who were killed in cold blood for being involved with a man who could not bear losing them. What is even more amazing is that the two women died fourteen years apart - the first, dental student Dolly Hearn was found shot to death and her death was ruled as a suicide, and the second, Jennifer Corbin, young mother of two sons, also found shot dead, and initially believed as a suicide. Only with the sleuthing and investigative skills of the officer presiding over the investigation does the sinister truth surface - that both women were the victims of a ruthless killer, Bart Corbin. Ann Rule manages to convey the victims sympathetically, and their stories are told with great empathy. We feel for these two women who died senseless deaths just because the man in their lives could not bear the thought of losing them. It is also a portrait of a marriage gone bad, of emotional and psychological abuse that drives a young mother to pursue an online affair, only to find out towards the end of her life that even that one refuge from her failing marriage is a lie. This true crime account reads like a work of fiction, but unfortunately, is based on actual events, and it will shock and sadden. Nevertheless, it is a story that deserves to be read, for the world needs to 'hear' the victims' stories, and find relief in justice being served.

5 out of 5 stars

Rule speaks for those who have been cruelly silenced June 8, 2007
16 out of 18 found this review helpful

Masterful storyteller Ann Rule has presented her millions of readers with another superb account from the true-crime annals, this one set in the burgeoning suburbs of Atlanta and the genteel, flowery city of Augusta. Victims Jenn Corbin and Dotty Hearn are brought to vivid, multi-dimensional life as we are drawn into this complex tale involving two murders more than a dozen years apart. The large cast of characters, including the extended families of both victims and killer, and the law enforcement officers and prosecuting team, are depicted with Rule's customary clarity, fairness, and depth.

Readers will find themselves turning pages deep into the wee hours, unable to put down this newest blockbuster from Ann Rule, the unrivaled best writer in her field.

5 out of 5 stars

A Compelling Read June 13, 2007
14 out of 15 found this review helpful

I live in the Atlanta area and was very much aware of the media coverage of the Corbin case. Jennifer's death, as you will discover from the book, was first reported as suicide, but no one I knew believed this. Bart Corbin's callousness, not only toward his victims, but toward his children, is truly chilling, and Anne Rule paints a great portrait of two families who are tarnished by that callousness. These were lovely, compassionate women, and Anne Rule helps to see what a great loss their deaths were to their friends and families. At least Jennifer's death caused authorities to re-open Dolly Hearn's case; who knows how many more victims may have been saved by this? This book is, as another poster said, a real page-turner.

5 out of 5 stars

WOW, WOW, WOW !!!!!!!!!!!! July 13, 2007
13 out of 17 found this review helpful

All I can say is this book is truly an A+ effort and one of the finest from the Queen of True Crime - Ann Rule. No other author in this genre does what she does - making nonfiction read so smoothly just like a novel.

The story here is very disturbing. How she finds these cases is amazing. But her intense, thorough research is obvious as the book is so meticulously written with no detail spared. And the people are all three dimensional and become very real. It's as if you are experiencing all this with them.

This book is in no way gratuitous. I think it is important to see that evil does exist - not to glorify it - but to try to see in some way where it comes from and what triggers it. This book does that. It also warns us all to always be careful in our daily lives.

Anne Rule is the best and brings true crime to an art form. I always treasure her full length novels. I understand they come out infrequently for she spends years doing the research.

Give yourself the gift of quality writing and buy this exemplary book.

5 out of 5 stars

Deja Vu, All Over Again June 30, 2007
12 out of 17 found this review helpful

Ann Rule is one of the best living chroniclers of deathly crime. She has her own shelf in this reviewer's TrueCrime Bookcase. But Best True Crime writer ever = Truman Capote (with a lotta help from his friend Nelle Harper Lee*) In Cold Blood. *See Infamous and Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee

Is this Ann's best work?
No.
That distinction, in her very distinguished career in the True Crime genre, goes to Small Sacrifices: A True Story of Passion and Murder. But a not-her-best Ann Rule is better than almost all the rest of the writers in this genre. Ann started in this grizzly biz by happenstance - she was working, just the cozy two of them, on an all-night helpline with a nice, bright, good looking young man. Imagine her surprise when that nice Ted Bundy - Yes, THAT Ted Bundy, was exposed as serial rapist/slayer. So she wrote a book about The Stranger Beside Me (Revised and Updated): 20th Anniversary- and she and we, the readers, found she had a knack for it.

So, Ann's settled in to a routine - a full-length in-detail book and a "summary collection" of crimes that didn't make it to full book, every year. It's become a formulaic forensic science. In the big books, we learn about the crime. We learn the bios of the victim, the perp, and the Law & Order folk involved. Here - the bio of the vicitmS (with an eerie similarity in the crimes - albeit about 15 years apart.) Kind of like Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegone, where "the women are strong, the men are good looking, and all the children are above average," Rule's interviewees are all described as beautiful and handsome and Einstein-intelligent. This reviewer has speculated previously that this must be Ann's way of compensating them for their time spent with her and enticing future potential interviewees regarding crimes as yet to be reported by Rule. The reader is able to view these folk in the center photo pages to judge for her/him self. Which gets us to:
Owen's Ann Rule:
Unless you are the kind of reader who reads the last chapter/denouement of murder mysteries First, do not peek at those photos in the middle of the book until the Law & Order folk have got their man/woman - lest it ruin it all for you.
Which gets me to one of my peeves - and why I'm not going to do it here:
I HATE it when reviewers tell you everything that the author is going to tell you in the book - what then is the point of purchasing it?!?

So, like I said several paragraphs ago, it's another fine entre in the Ann Rule oeuvre.

To borrow a phrase from another Internet purveyor: Buy It Now!

/TundraVision, Amazon TrueCrime Reviewer

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