She thought he was Mr. Right. When Barbara Bentley married retired US Navy Admiral John Perry, she believed she had found her happily-ever-after. But clues and questions started piling up and grew harder to ignore as Perry drained Bentley's credit and committed increasingly weirder malfeasance. The Walnut Creek author reads Dance with the Devil, her memoir about marriage to a psychopathic criminal, at Barnes & Noble (4972 Dublin Blvd., Dublin) on Nov. 28. 1 p.m. BarnesandNoble.com

Anneli Star Josselin Rufus

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