Bitter Harvest

True crime icon Ann Rule presents a "must-read" (People) New York Times bestseller-and inspiration behind the Lifetime movie A House on Fire-following a woman whose apparent perfect life hides a harrowing and deadly madness.

Debora Green, a doctor and mother in a picturesque and exclusive Kansas town, seems to have the perfect life with her own medical practice, a handsome physician husband, and three lovely children. It seems like a horribly tragic accident when a raging fire destroys her home and takes two lives. But a trail of clues leads investigators to an unthinkable conclusion.



In this "tour de force from America's best true crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews), Ann Rule reveals the disturbing secrets-including infidelity, suicide, revenge, and murder-hiding beneath a façade of paradise in the American heartland. Ann Rule (1931–2015) 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.