[3] She attended an alternative high school, the Occupational Skills Center, and showed an interest in photography.
Rule became interested in the study of ghosts while growing up in what was known to locals as a "haunted house" located on a Native American burial ground on Puget Sound.
[4] She has written five non-fiction books featuring paranormal stories, based on historical research and interviews of people who say they've witnessed ghost sightings.
[8] Upon the release of her seventh book, Ghost in the Mirror, The News Tribune wrote, "Leslie remembers sneaking a peek in her mother's grisly files that chronicled the lives of notorious murderers.
Rule's second novel, Kill Me Again, made Crown Books' bestseller list the week of its release in September 1996.