Everything She Ever Wanted - Softcover

Rule, Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 067169071X ISBN 13: 9780671690717

Publisher: Pocket Books, 1993

Synopsis

WAS SHE A SWEET SOUTHERN CHARMER?
OR A COLD-BLOODED KILLER?
For their wedding portrait, petite Pat Taylor and handsome Tom Allanson posed as Rhett and Scarlett. Both came from fine Southern families, and dreamed of the Tara-like plantation where they would grow roses, raise horses, and move in the genteel circles of Atlanta society. Less than two months later, their dream exploded in terror and murder: their beautiful home mysteriously burned to the ground and Tom was convicted of the brutal slaying of his mother and father.
Pat's only brother had died in a puzzling suicide, her grandparents-in-law were poisoned with arsenic, and no one -- from her wealthy employers to her own children -- was safe when Pat Allanson didn't get her way. It took Georgia lawmen more than two decades to stop her for good -- if indeed they have.
In this fascinating account, Ann Rule delivers a tour de force: a whirlwind of misguided love, denial, guilt, and passions out of control; a series of brilliantly manipulated crimes; the bizarre and horrifying tale of two families brought to ruin; and, at the center of it all, the heartless, supremely selfish sociopath whose evil hid behind soft words and gentle manners, but who destroyed -- without mercy -- those who loved her.

About this title

Review:

"Rule hits the bull's-eye." -- Publisher's Weekly

"A headlong plunge into the depths of a sociopathic mind, told with a master's hand." -- Kirkus Reviews

Book Description:

EVERYTHING SHE EVER WANTED is a compelling study of a systematic, remorseless sociopath. Bestselling true-crime writer Ann Rule's meticulous recounting of heedless ambition and selfish passion alternately arouses and chills the senses.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 067169071X
• ISBN 13: 9780671690717
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 560