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Everything She Ever Wanted
Everything She Ever Wanted
Everything She Ever Wanted
Audiobook (abridged)2 hours

Everything She Ever Wanted

Written by Ann Rule

Narrated by Blair Brown

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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WAS SHE A SWEET SOUTHERN CHARMER?
OR A COLD-BLOODED KILLER?
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.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateDec 1, 1992
ISBN9780743567886
Everything She Ever Wanted
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Ann Rule

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.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Excellent narration. Really like her voice and the emotion she put into her performance.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    It was ok but not that exciting. You kinda figured what likely happened by the end and I wasn’t really even compelled to finish it.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Loved Betty Buckley’s voice reading this book. She has just the right soft southern accent that reflects Georgia’s dialect.

    Sad but true story.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Very solid true-crime retelling. Good writing, very engaging. I highly recommend -- but don't be surprised if it elevates your blood pressure: so much to make you angry, when it comes to the behaviour of certain people within the pages of this book!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Great book. Semi short but a great story. Nice Read!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Very solid true-crime retelling. Good writing, very engaging. I highly recommend -- but don't be surprised if it elevates your blood pressure: so much to make you angry, when it comes to the behaviour of certain people within the pages of this book!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I have read quite a few of Ann Rules' books and this was one of her best. It's so convoluted that she draws you along wanting to know what is going on. This case is very involved, spreads over several years and involves quite a few people close to the people closest to the crimes.Rule does a very good job making the histories of the people, and the court case, interesting - areas that can fail in a true crime book.I would put this one right up there with "Small Sacrifices". Highly recommended.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    on Monday, January 05, 2004 I wrote on Bookcrossing about this book:


    Currently Reading. Like it until now

    Sunday February 1th 2004

    Finished the book.
    I think this is one of the better books by Ann Rule. Lots of details as always,but also a lot of questions up till the end.
    Who committed the murders?
    I felt angry a lot of times, o how much i despise that woman, Pat Taylor.She always wanted to be in the center of attention,so selfish.
    This book I really recommend.