num_pages: 463
description: “America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews) presents an all-new collection of crime stories drawn from her private files and featuring the riveting case of a fraudulent doctor whose lifelong deceptions had deadly consequences.Dr. Anthony Pignataro was a cosmetic surgeon and a famed medical researcher whose flashy red Lamborghini and flamboyant lifestyle in western New York State suggested a highly successful career. But appearances can be deceiving—and, for the doctor’s wife, very nearly deadly. Now, the motivations of the classic sociopath are plumbed with chilling accuracy by Ann Rule.Along with other shocking true cases, this worldwide headline-making case will have you turning pages in disbelief that a trusted medical professional could sink to the depths of greed, manipulation, and self-aggrandizement where even slow, deliberate murder is not seen for what it truly pure evil.
language: English
title: LAST DANCE, LAST CHANCE - and Other True Cases
titlecomplete: LAST DANCE, LAST CHANCE - and Other True Cases
genres: True Crime, Crime, Essays, Adult, New York, Short Stories, True Story, Anthologies, Nonfiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 2783
series: Crime Files
publisher: Pocket Books