Leslie Rule is an artist, photographer, and bestselling author of nonfiction and suspense. She is the daughter of Ann Rule, one of the best known American true crime writers of all time, and served as her research assistant and trial photographer beginning from age seventeen. A longtime vegetarian, Leslie Rule is an animal advocate and has participated in the rescue of over a hundred cats and dogs, establishing her own nonprofit animal shelter in 2005. Leslie lives in Seattle and can be found online at AuthorLeslieRule.com.