# Dead by Sunset

**Author(s):** Ann Rule
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
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**Genres:** true-crime
**Publisher:** Little, Brown Book Group Limited
**Published:** Tue Jan 01 2019 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780751579161
**ISBN-10:** 0751579165
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/dead-by-sunset

## Description

The first 464 pages of this book are standard Ann Rule. A beautiful, brilliant attorney marries a psychopath and suffers dreadfully for her choice of mate. She bears him three beautiful, brilliant little boys while Brad runs through her money, accumulates girlfriends, and is never home when she and the boys need him/  Finally, Cheryl can't bear his abuse any longer. She files for a divorce, and starts collecting evidence about his financial misdealing. She also wants full custody of the boys.

he next 454 pages don't dwell on the mystery of who killed her. Everyone knows who did her in, but there is very little physical evidence. Instead, the author dissects Brad's various marriages and affairs, with emphasis on his brutality toward Cheryl and his children. We learn everyone's life story. We are told over and over again how slender, frail, and beautiful Cheryl was, what a good mother she was, and how her brilliance as an attorney was beginning to be recognized by one and all.

## SageChimp reader verdict

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**Themes:** Crime Investigation