Everything She Ever Wanted

Written by Ann Rule

Narrated by Cassandra Campbell

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
• Release date: Dec 27, 2022
• ISBN: 9781797147765

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.

Reviews for Everything She Ever Wanted

[Mark Whittenburg · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

What a nut! Unbelievable story by Rule and narrated perfectly

[Amy Cha · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I couldn't imagine why this book would be so long but once you think the story is done it isn't and it continued and very intriguing the entire way.

[Erin Jerman · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

ANNE RULE IS THE QUEEN OF TRUE CRIME. Some of her descriptors are a bit outdated and in poor taste- for example talking about a subjects weight or a person's color. Those are my only criticisms of her work. She was one of a kind.