• Worth More Dead

  • And Other True Cases (Ann Rule's Crime Files, Book 10)
  • By: Ann Rule
  • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
  • Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (28 ratings)

Prime logo Prime members: New to Audible?
Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.
Worth More Dead  By  cover art

Worth More Dead

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Try for $0.00

$14.95/month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $20.00

Buy for $20.00

Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.

Publisher's summary

Why would a man kill his lover's husband and then his wife, the woman who fought successfully to have him paroled from prison? Why would he risk arrest by kidnapping the child of another woman who adored him? Because they were… Worth More Dead.

A cold case reopened - and solved - with dogged police work and new evidence. One of the shocking true crimes of passion and greed from Ann Rule's Crime Files.

Former Marine sergeant and judo instructor Roland Pitre Jr. claimed it was all an elaborate plan to win back his wife's love - it wasn't supposed to end with her dead body in the trunk of a car. Nearly twenty years later, he acknowledged that he had hired someone to kill his estranged wife in 1988, though his alleged excuse for why a monstrous "mistake" happened is as shocking and convoluted as the crime itself. Eventually, he was charged with first-degree murder in the long-unsolved death of Cheryl Pitre, after a mysterious witness betrayed Pitre to save his own skin. Tracing back the dark and bloody path of Pitre's life, two generations of detectives found a chain of brutal and terrifying crimes by a man who manipulated the courts and prisons to walk free.

©2005 Ann Rule (P)2013 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

What listeners say about Worth More Dead

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    12
  • 4 Stars
    10
  • 3 Stars
    3
  • 2 Stars
    2
  • 1 Stars
    1
Performance
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    13
  • 4 Stars
    8
  • 3 Stars
    4
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    2
Story
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    14
  • 4 Stars
    7
  • 3 Stars
    5
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    1

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    3 out of 5 stars

Ånn Rule is Ann Rule

I found this book not nearly as compelling as other Ann Rule books i have listened too.
I have listened to it but I do not expect I will want to listen to it again.

Ingibjörg

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful

  • Overall
    2 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    1 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    3 out of 5 stars

Meh

I think I would have much rather have read this book instead of listening to it. I can’t tell if my dislike for this book was solely due to the bland and boring voice actor (Laural Merlington) or the story or a combination of both. I usually really love Ann Rule (I have so many of her books). The voice actor Laural was the worst — boring, bland, uninteresting, just terrible. I often found myself not paying attention and having to rewind all the time to remember where I drifted off. I restarted chapters over and over just to see why I was disinterested in the story and lost.

Just don’t even bother with this one

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!