Raynella Bernardene Large was born in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee in 1948. Her father was a nuclear scientist, so the family moved to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where Raynella was raised. She attended school in Oak Ridge, and graduated college with her RN in Nursing. She married the Knox County District Attorney, Ed Dossett, in 1970. Dossett was found dead inside a corral at their home in 1992, and his death was ruled an agricultural accident despite his terminal cancer diagnosis and suspicions of Raynella and his insurance clause. Raynella remarried six months later. Her second husband was a retired barber, David Leath. Leath was discovered dead in the bedroom by Raynella in 2003. Suicide was suspected, but foul play on the part of Raynella was also suspected. This book goes into the investigations into the deaths of both of Raynella's husbands.

This book was particularly interesting to me, because this is the area I am from. I am in Chattanooga, which is about an hour and a half from Knoxville. I have visited Oak Ridge several times, and if you have the change to visit the nuclear history museums there, I suggest you do so. I have been to Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg many times and am going up for the day this weekend to see the new Bodies Museum. I am always interested in court cases from places that are known to me. This book was sufficiently detailed and informative about the case. I did look up to see if there had been any new developments since this book was published and there have been. If you plan to read this book, definitely do some post reading research about Raynella.