a Tour De Force From America's Best True-crime Writer. --kirkus Reviews
dr. Debora Green And Her Husband, Dr. Michael Farrar, Seemed To Have It All: A Happy Marriage, Successful Medical Practices, And Three Bright And Beautiful Children. This Image Was Maintained Until A Fire Broke Out At The Luxurious Mansion Owned By The Couple, Taking The Lives Of Two Of Their Children. When The Fire Was Labeled Arson, The Police Began To Focus On Deb Green, Who Is The Fascinating Subject Of Bestselling Author Ann Rule's Most Recent True-crime Epic, bitter Harvest: A Woman's Fury, A Mother's Sacrifice.
a Chronicle Of A Tragedy That Took Place In The Posh Suburb Of Prairie Village, Kansas, bitter Harvest Is The True Story Of The Disintegration Of A Marriage And Its Horrifying Consequences. Rule Follows The Arson Investigators, Forensic Scientists, And Prosecutors Who Had To Untangle Green's Intricate Puzzle Of Psychopathology. Could A Mother And A Doctor, Committed By The Hippocratic Oath To Do No Harm, Deliberately Set A Fire That Took The Lives Of Her 13-year-old Son And Six-year-old Daughter? Were The Near-fatal Episodes Of Intestinal Distress Suffered By Her Estranged Husband Caused By His Wife? Could A Woman Be So Full Of Vengeance That She Would Destroy Her Children And Watch As Her Husband Grew Deathly Ill From The Poisoned Food She Fed Him?
none Of Rule's Previous Subjects -- Not Diane Downs Of small Sacrifices Nor Brad Cunningham Of dead By Sunset -- Have Inspired Such An Enthralling Study Of The Criminal Mind.
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dr. Deborah Green Was A Brilliant, Wealthy, Married Mother Of Three Who Was Convicted Of Repeatedly Trying To Poison Her Husband And Of Killing Two Of Her Children In A Fire She Methodically Set In The Family Home. Rule (a Fever In The Heart, Lj 11/1/96) Proves Once Again That She Is A Master Of The True-crime Genreshe Builds The Narrative From Green's Days As A Student Of Superior Intelligence Through Her Years In An Increasingly Unhappy Marriage To Her Physician Husband. Rule Carefully Chronicles Green's Bizarre Behavior And Takes The Reader Through The Arson Investigation As Well As Green's Husband's Illnesses, Surgeries, And Attempt To Rebuild His Life With His Remaining Child, Who Escaped The Fire. Peppered Throughout The Narrative Are Quotes From Green Herself, Which Expose Her Twisted Thinking And Her Attempts To Rationalize Her Behavior. An Outstanding Chronicle Of A Crime Investigation As Well As A Riveting Profile Of A Brilliant Mind And Empty Soul. [previewed In Prepub Alert, Lj 9/15/97.]christine A. Moesch, Buffalo & Erie County P.l., N.y.
Categories:
- Biographies & Memoirs
- True Crime
- Murder & Mayhem
- True Crime
Publisher : Pocket Books
Author : Rule, Ann
Language : English
Edition : Reissue
Published :1999-02-01
Number Of Pages : 496
Binding : Mass Market Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0671868691
ISBN-13 : 9780671868697
Item weight : 0.5 lb
Dimensions : 1.2 in x 4.1 in x 6.7 in
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