Bitter Harvest

The true story of a wealthy female doctor who killed two of her children and tried to slowly poison her husband. A noted true-crime writer, Ann Rule shows how the doctor's relaxed manner, especially during her interviews with the police, disguised her long descent into alcoholism and prescription drug addiction, as well as her tendency toward dramatic mood swings.

"Impossible to put down (though a little skimpy on psychiatric details), this is, thanks to the vivid, fascinating portrait of Debora and of the slow unraveling of her homicidal schemes, one of Rule's best." - (Kirkus, 1/1/98)

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