By Ann Rule
Talented WITH an excellent brain, BLESSED WITH a stunning kin -- AND CURSED WITH A harmful MADNESS
during this harrowing long island occasions bestseller, Ann Rule is at her masterful most sensible as she winnows bad truths from the ashes of what gave the look of paradise in Prairie Village, Kansas. Rule probes the case of Debora eco-friendly, a physician and a loving mom who appeared to epitomize the desires of the yankee heartland. A small-town lady with a genius IQ, she accomplished an enviable existence: her personal clinical perform, a good-looking healthcare professional husband, 3 excellent youngsters, and a plush domestic in an specific Kansas urban suburb. but if a raging hearth destroyed that domestic and took lives, the path of clues led investigators to a gorgeous end. Piece by means of piece, Ann Rule digs underneath this placid Midwestern facade to unveil a annoying portrait of unusually afflicted marriages, infidelity, desperation, suicide, and escalating acts of revenge that without end replaced dozens of lives.
Amazon.com Review
Fans of Ann Rule will locate a lot to take pleasure in in sour Harvest, the story of a super Kansas health care professional who holds herself jointly good adequate to place on a good convey for the surface international, yet within the middle of her horror-struck kin is a violent and baffling monster. She beverages, abuses medicinal drugs, spews invective, or even lighting fires. At one aspect she learns from an Agatha Christie novel a couple of powerful toxin contained in castor beans, and she or he starts off poisoning her long-suffering husband. but till the ultimate hearth that consumes of her childrens, they proceed to like her and guard her to attackers. Rule tells the tale with aptitude, conveying the entire heady emotions concerned, yet nonetheless the e-book has a flaw: Rule fails to appreciate the most personality. while a psychiatrist testifies that the health practitioner is at a more youthful age than a baby in her skill to technique or maintain feelings, Rule writes, "That was once a shocker. might a girl with an IQ of a hundred sixty five and a biting, facetious wit, a girl who had zipped via university and clinical college, be a baby emotionally?"Yes, she may well. sour Harvest would've been a much better booklet if Rule had proven us how. --This textual content refers to an out of print or unavailable version of this title.
From Library Journal
Dr. Deborah eco-friendly used to be an excellent, prosperous, married mom of 3 who used to be convicted of time and again attempting to poison her husband and of killing of her young children in a fireplace she methodically set within the relations domestic. Rule (A Fever within the center, LJ 11/1/96) proves once more that she is a grasp of the true-crime genre?she builds the narrative from Green's days as a pupil of improved intelligence via her years in an more and more unsatisfied marriage to her general practitioner husband. Rule conscientiously chronicles Green's extraordinary habit and takes the reader during the arson research in addition to Green's husband's health problems, surgical procedures, and try to rebuild his existence together with his last baby, who escaped the hearth. Peppered in the course of the narrative are charges from eco-friendly herself, which reveal her twisted considering and her makes an attempt to rationalize her habit. a good chronicle of a criminal offense research in addition to a riveting profile of a super brain and empty soul.
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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form without the express written permission of the publisher. ISBN: 978-1-78027-198-9 eBook ISBN: 978-0-85790-805-6 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library To Coral, Finlay, Mia and Zara Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Hitting the Heights 2 The Ibrox Open Goal 3 A Sign of the Times 4 A Lasting Impression 5 The First Rule of Robbery 6 The Crime that Rocked the Capital 7 Auction House Hammered 8 An Ugly Secret 9 Scotland’s Unwelcome Tourists 10 A Jewel Heist with a Difference 11 Blood on the Streets 12 A City’s Darkest Day 13 Tricks of the Trade 14 The Art of the Heist 15 An Age-old Problem 16 National Emergency Postscript Bibliography Colourplates Acknowledgments Few books open with a word of thanks for the men and women of Scotland’s police service but it seems fitting to do just that.
The file remains open although the hopes of ever gaining a conclusion by bringing suspects to court remain a fading dream for those who were left stumped by a carefully choreographed and perfectly executed heist. 2 The Ibrox Open Goal It was described at the time as Scotland’s biggest bank robbery and one of the best planned the country had ever seen. It also had as one of its main suspects a man billed as the Monocled Major and one of Glasgow’s most recognisable districts as its backdrop – in short, the Ibrox heist of 1955 had all the ingredients to make it a headline writer’s dream.
There was a tremendous public response to the initial appeal for information, with detectives and uniformed colleagues interviewing hundreds of witnesses. They spent time visiting businesses throughout Altens and left no stone unturned in their quest for vital clues. Staff at the cash depot were also quizzed at length, with officers duty bound to explore the possibility that the raiders may have had help from the inside. That was not a theory that was ever publicly discussed or given credence by the investigating team.