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.

Publish Date : 1993