Bitter Harvest: A Womans Fury A Mothers Sacrifice

Ann Rule

Feb 2000 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

True crime icon Ann Rule presents a “must-read” (People) New York Times bestseller—and inspiration behind the Lifetime movie A House on Fire—following a woman whose apparent perfect life hides a harrowing and deadly madness.

Debora Green, a doctor and mother in a picturesque and exclusive Kansas town, seems to have the perfect life with her own medical practice, a handsome physician husband, and three lovely children. It seems like a horribly tragic accident when a raging fire destroys her home and takes two lives. But a trail of clues leads investigators to an unthinkable conclusion.

In this “tour de force from America’s best true crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews), Ann Rule reveals the disturbing secrets—including infidelity, suicide, revenge, and murder—hiding beneath a façade of paradise in the American heartland.

Ratings and reviews

Hearing about Deborah greens life and behavior is always fascinating. A study of a monster hiding inside a ugly housewife. She is basically a toddler who can reach the matches. For the same reason we don't leave our kids alone with lighters Deborah shouldn't go free.

I adore Ann Rules books(I was greatly saddened to learn of her passing), but I think this is my favorite. That a so called mother could be so completely and totally wicked just blows my mind.

The details of this tragic moment was so moving. It was hard to put this book down. Ann Rule does it again.

About the author

Ann Rule wrote thirty-five New York Times bestsellers, all of them still in print. Her first bestseller was The Stranger Beside Me, about her personal relationship with infamous serial killer Ted Bundy. A former Seattle police officer, she used her firsthand expertise in all her books. For more than three decades, she was a powerful advocate for victims of violent crime. She lived near Seattle and died in 2015.