Ann Rule's shocking and powerful account of the destructive forces that drove Diane Downs, a beautiful young mother, to shoot her three young children in cold blood. "Vivid....Extraordinary...a page-turner."-- New York Times Book Review "Superb...[a] riveting detective story."-- Indianapolis Star "A harrowing pathological portrait....A work of resonance and revelation with breath-stopping tension to the end." -- Kirkus Reviews "Fascinating...grisly...un-putdownable." -- New York Daily News "Excellent....One of the most detailed studies of a sociopath to dignify the true-crime circuit." -- The San Francisco Chronicle "A raw docudrama of almost unbelievable intensity." -- Booklist * Also by Ann Rule (in Signet's newly repackaged editions): The Stranger Beside Me (4/99), The I-5 Killer (6/99), The Want-Ad Killer (8/99), The Lust Killer (10/99)