title: Everything She Ever Wanted: A True Story of Love, Murder & Betrayal
author:  Ann Rule 
description: 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.<br /><i>- Sandra K. Lindheimer, Middlesex Law Lib., Cambridge, Mass.</i><br />Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  ALSO BY ANN RULE
  Bitter Harvest
  Dead by Sunset
  Everything She Ever Wanted
  If You Really Loved Me
  The Stranger Beside Me
  Possession
  Small Sacrifices
  A Rage to Kill
  In the Name of Love
  A Fever in the Heart
  You Belong to Me
  A Rose for Her Grave
  The I-5 Killer
  The Want-Ad Killer
  Lust Killer
  
  . . . And Never Let Her Go
  THOMAS CAPANO:
  THE DEADLY SEDUCER
  Ann Rule
  
  SIMON & SCHUSTER
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  ISBN 0-684-81048-4
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  FOR ANNE MARIE FAHEY
  who was not perfect, but who was better than most,
  with no little regret that to bring her justice I have
  to tell the secrets that