Search - Bitter Harvest : A Woman's Fury, A Mother's Sacrifice

True story of a sociopathic woman who becomes a doctor, but her horrible personality problems leads her to set several houses on fire, poison her husband and kill 2 of her 3 children all to get her own way. Fascinating, yet very sad story.

Bitter Harvest probes the case of Debra Green, a doctor and a loving mother who seemed to epitomize the dreams of the American heartland. A small town girl with a genius IQ, she achieved an enviable life; her own medical practice, a handsome physician husband, three perfect children, and an opulent home in an exclusive Kansas City suburb. But when a raging fire destroyed that home and took two lives, the trail of clues led investigators to a stunning conclusion. Piece by piece, Ann Rule digs beneath this placid Midwestern facade to unveil a disturbing portrait of strangely troubled marriages, infidelity, desperation, suicide, and escalating acts of revenge that forever changed dozens of lives.

Very chilling account of this woman's desperation to keep her husband.

Reads like a novel rather than a biography.

Haven't read it, just want to past it along to someone else.

True crime by former policewoman. Female doctor murders
part of her family. True crime. Ann Rule writes, it seems to me,
in a very easy to read, very informative, insightful style.

Ann Rule, again, brings this true life story right in front of you and you live the story. Beautifully written.

Great Ann Rule book.

Very interesting reading!

Bitter Harvest probes the case of Debora Green, a doctor and a loving mother who seemed to epitomize the dreams of the American heartland. A small-town girl with a genius IQ, she achieved an enviable life: her own medical practice, a handsome physician husband, three perfect children, and an opulent home in an exclusive Kansas City suburb. But when a raging fire destroyed that home and took two lives, the trail of clues led investigators to a stunning conclusion. Piece by piece, Ann Rule digs beneath this placid Midwestern facade to unveil a distrubing portrait of strangely troubled marriages, infidelity, desperation, suicide, and escalating acts of revenge that forever changed dozens of lives.

This is the first Ann Rule book I ever read, and I was definitely hooked. I have already read at least half of all her true crime books.

Paradise Village, Kansas hides a world of hate, rage and homicide. True crime reporting at it's best.

This is yet another one of Rule's great true crime stories. Such a tragic story and the pictures of the children that were killed are just so haunting.

This is the first time I've ever read a true crime book. Ann Rule is really good at writing about the facts and making it read like a novel at the same time. It was hohwever, a creepy read. The the subject is of a vile woman who took revenge due to a failing marriage. I was left with a fleeting chance that she could be innocent (?)