Leslie Rule is the best-selling author of two suspense novels and three nonfiction books on ghosts. She has also published dozens of articles in national magazines, including a November, 2005 article on ghosts and murder in READER'S DIGEST.

Leslie grew up in a family of writers in a creaky old house on a windy cliff which overlooked Puget Sound. "My mother (author Ann Rule) made it no secret that our house was haunted," says Leslie. "She loved to tell company about the ghost that shared our home. When I was a little girl, I thought everyone lived in a haunted house!"

Leslie's spooky childhood sparked a lifelong fascination with ghosts. "I swore I would never write true crime, because that is my mom's genre," says Leslie. "But the ghost cases I researched so often involved murder, that my latest book overlaps with my mom's genre."

 WHEN THE GHOST SCREAMS--TRUE STORIES OF VICTIMS WHO HAUNT explores dozens of cases from across the nation where spirits remain earthbound after violent death.

In addition to writing, Leslie is also a photographer and an artist. Many of her photographs of cops and killers can be seen in her mother's true crime books. "She started taking me to trials with her when I was seventeen!" says Leslie. "I learned early that if I was going to get a good shot of a murderer, I could not be afraid to get up close to them and snap a picture during breaks in the courtroom."

Leslie lives in the Seattle area with a number of cats and dogs.