buy The latest from respected true crime veteran Rule (And Never Let Her Go, etc.) walks readers through the torturedlife and ugly murder of Sheila Bellush, a woman relentlessly pursued by her sexually obsessed ex husband, AllenVan Houte. The crime scene is horrific: Bellush lies dead in the kitchen while her toddler quadruplets are leftto walk naked through her blood. Bellush had long wa ed close friends that she feared her ex husbands reprisalsand went so far as to request quot;if Im not here... find Ann Rule and have her write my story.quot; Rule, in classicform, meticulously re creates the prosaic lives of her characters, charting one womans pleasantly humdrumexistence undermined by a man bent on making a fortune though defaulting on bank loans and pedestrian cons, suchas swindling family members. After he lured Bellush into his world of sexual play, she left him, and he hireda man to kill her. The subsequent fallout included a complex and lengthy inquiry by investigators. There are nosurprises here for the reader, though some may enjoy Rules examination of Van Houtes manipulative and predatorynature.