Bitter Harvest by Ann Rule

Bitter Harvest (Used Collectible True Crime Paperback)

Ann Rule's Account of the Debora Green Case and the Fatal Prairie Village House Fire

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: Bitter Harvest: A Woman's Fury, A Mother's Sacrifice
• Author: Ann Rule
• Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks, London
• Publication Date: 1998
• ISBN-13: 9780751526691
• ISBN-10: 075152669X
• Edition Details: This edition published in 1999 by Warner Books. Reprinted by Time Warner Paperbacks in 2002.
• Binding: Publisher's illustrated paperback wrappers, perfect bound, glossy black cover with orange leaf image.
• Physical Format: Mass-market style paperback, roughly 180 x 110 mm. 443 pages.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Good (G)
• Exterior / Wraps: Glossy black illustrated wrappers with an orange leaf image. The white spine carries several light vertical crease lines and a few white stress lines, with a slight lean to the spine. Corners and edges are mostly clean, with no tears.
• Interior: The text block is intact and the binding sound. The pages are toned, as is typical of paperback paper of this period, and the wavy fore-edge with a pale glue line shows the book has been read. No markings or foxing.
• The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued)

Synopsis & Historical Value

Bitter Harvest: A Woman's Fury, A Mother's Sacrifice is Ann Rule's true-crime account of the Debora Green case. Green was a wealthy doctor and mother of three in the American Midwest, whose jealousy and rage destroyed her marriage.

In October 1995 a fire in Prairie Village, Kansas, killed two of her children, twelve-year-old Tim and his six-year-old sister Kelly. The investigation that followed led to Green herself.

Rule follows the investigators and prosecutors who built the case and brought her to justice, bringing the narrative pace and attention to human detail for which she was known. A readable copy for true-crime collectors and for readers of Ann Rule's work.

Author Profile: Ann Rule

Ann Rule was an American true-crime writer who wrote more than 30 books. She worked briefly for the Seattle Police Department at the age of 21 and began writing for magazines such as True Detective in 1969.

Her first book, The Stranger Beside Me (1980), dealt with Ted Bundy, whom she had worked beside at a Seattle crisis clinic and who kept in touch with her. Rule died in July 2015, and most of her books remain in print.