You know the #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule,
"America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews), from her
unforgettable classic The Stranger Beside Me, now get ready to meet
the heiress of her True Crime legacy, her daughter, Leslie Rule.
It was a bleak November in 2012 when Cari Lea Farver vanished from
Omaha, Nebraska. Cari, thirty-seven, was a devoted mother, reliable
employee, and loyal friend--not the type to shirk responsibilities,
abandon her son, and run off on an adventure while her dying father took
his last breaths. Yet, the many texts from her phone indicated she had
done just that.
It appeared that Cari had dumped her new boyfriend, quit her job, and
relinquished custody of her son to her mother--all by text. While Cari's
boyfriend, Dave Kroupa, and her supervisor were bewildered by her abrupt
disappearance, they accepted the texts at face value. Her mother, Nancy
Raney, however, was alarmed and reported Cari missing. Police were
skeptical of her claims that a cyber impostor had commandeered her
daughter's phone and online identity.
While Nancy was afraid for Cari, Dave Kroupa was growing afraid of
her, for he believed Cari was stalking him. Never seen or heard, the
stalker was aware of his every move and seemed obsessed with his casual
girlfriend, Shanna "Liz" Golyar, often calling her "a fat whore" in the
twelve thousand emails and texts he received in a disturbing three-year
deluge.
How did the stalker know Dave's phone numbers immediately after he
changed them, the names of his lady friends, even what he wore as he
watched TV? He and Liz reported death threats, vandalism, and
burglaries, but the stalker remained at large. The threats were vicious,
vile and often obscene, sent mostly via text and always in Cari's name.
There was some truth in the messages, but all of them contained one big
lie. The culprit was not Cari, but had killed and planned to kill again.
With mesmerizing detail and compelling narrative skill, Leslie Rule
tracks every step of the heart-pounding path to long-awaited
justice--from a sociopath's twisted past to the deadly deception and the
high-tech forensics that condemned the killer to prison.
