Customer Comments
                     Average Customer Review:  Number of Reviews: 15

                     Lorraine ([email protected]) from San Jose, CA , August 23,
                     1998
                     One of Ann Rule's Best!
                     Ann Rule has done it again! This gut-wrenching, unforgettable book is one
                     of the best-written true-crime stories in print. "Small Sacrifices" helps us
                     understand a little better the tragic depths of the disturbed and evil psyche
                     and its impact upon trusting innocence. This is a poignant, unforgettable
                     must-read for any true-crime lover. Bring out the tissue box.

                     [email protected] from ENGLAND , August 23, 1998

                     marvellous
                     DIANE DOWNS WAS UNMISTAKEABLLY ILL, I MEAN FANCY
                     KILLING YOUR CHILDREN ALL BECAUSE OF ANOTHER
                     MAN, I WOULD PERSONALLY HAVE GIVEN UP ON THE MAN
                     FOR THE LOVE OF MY CHILDREN,I HOPE THE CHILDREN
                     ARE GETTING ON WITH THIER LIVES, AND HAVE LEARN'T
                     TO PUT THE PAST BEHIND, WHERE EVER YOU KIDS MAY
                     GOD BE WITH YOU.

                     A reader from Virginia , August 14, 1998
                     A tragic story
                     Ann Rule examines the mind of Diane Downs, a woman who cold
                     bloodedly shot her three children, killing one and crippling the others. This
                     woman is EVIL, but she gets what she deserves in the end.

                     [email protected] from Houston, Texas , July 28, 1998
                     This was the book that started it all for me!
                     I have read this book more than once, and I am still astonished by this
                     case! This was the first true-crime book that I ever read, and it started an
                     interest in criminal psychology that is now becoming my career! I have
                     suggested this book to everyone that I know! After reading the story of
                     Diane Downs, you will never be the same. It is so hard to believe that a
                     mother did what is every mother's nightmare to her own children! And to
                     Christy and Danny, wherever you are, may God bless you and keep you
                     safe.

                     A reader from Anderson, Indiana , July 27, 1998
                     Another great book by Ann Rule
                     No one tells a true crime story like Ann Rule. This book manages to tell
                     us of a horrible crime without unnecessary sensationalism. Ann Rule
                     brings us so close to Cristy and Danny that we are left wondering what
                     became of them and hoping they have done well.

                     Derrick elizabeth from Arknsaw , July 2, 1998

                     I have read this book more then once . I have exparented the pain as
                     witch it has caused my family . Iam the kids cousin .Iam vary instrted in
                     finding my cousins .There father is my mother;s brother .This has gratley
                     aficted my family .But all I know is that god ponises those who do wrong
                     and I gratley intestapet the day when I reaunt with my family .I pray for
                     dian and her family .But there will never be A excuase for what happened

                     [email protected] from Montana , March 11, 1998

                     I saw the movie and a few years later read the book. It's an excellent
                     book from cover to cover. I guess a part of me wants to believe that
                     Downs really was telling the truth, that a stranger shot her and her
                     children. However, common sense and the heart-wrenching testimony of
                     her daughter, Christie, lead me to believe she was guilty. I know that
                     Christie and Danny are adults now and have, hopefully, put this behind
                     them and have made a relationship with their father. I can't help but hope
                     that some day Rule will update the book as to what happened to Christie
                     and Danny.

                     A reader from Denver, CO , February 24, 1998
                     Excellent and riveting, truly a sad story!
                     When I read this book, I didn't know much about sociopaths. But
                     following the actions of Diane Downs life, it is so obvious that something
                     was bound to happen! She was a pathetic loser in life, always searching
                     for somebody to love her, and to make quick money. Unfortunately, the
                     love her children gave was never noticed. What is so shocking is that she
                     had no idea the path she was leading. Everything just happened! Could
                     someone have intervened with psychiatric help, what about family
                     guidance, there was none, even from those loser boyfriends who used
                     her! She desperately needed help! Maybe nothing like this would have
                     happened had she got treatment!!! How distrubing to read that all the way
                     up to the trial, she still exhibited the actions of a pathetic sole, still not
                     realizing that she IS AND WAS SICK; especially when "Hungry Life a
                     Wolf" was played in court and she kicks her foot to the tune while
                     mouthing the words!! Truly, a sick, deplorable person, who I believe to
                     this day, does not even realize that "something is wrong with her".