PLEASE NOTE: This book may have an alternate cover. The following description is provided as a guide only and may contain text that doesn't specifically relate to this item. From Library Journal . . . .Spoiled rotten by her family, Patricia Vann Radcliffe Taylor Allinson, a Georgia beauty whose goal in life was to emulate Scarlett O'Hara, led a life of deadly horror. Fed by her family's constant devotion from early childhood through middle age, Pat, who could do nothing wrong by her family's standards, could do nothing right in the view of society. A narcissistic personality, without a shred of conscience, she systematically destroyed her own family. Nothing she ever had was enough. She had to make things go her way and she did: through manipulation, poisoning, theft, lies, and deceit. Her presence was a constant danger to people who stood in her way: her brother a suicide, her new in-laws shot dead, her grandparents-in-law nearly poisoned by arsenic, her employer severely overdosed, her daughter, who finally saw the awful truth about her mother, possibly poisoned. Rule's tautly written study of this diabolical woman constantly fascinates the reader. Highly recommended. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 8/92. . . . .- Sandra K. Lindheimer, Middlesex Law Lib., Cambridge, Mass. . . . .Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. . . . . . . . .From AudioFile . . . .�Betty Buckley uses a gentle Southern accent for a quiet, but compelling delivery.� M.S. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
