Every Breath You Take: A True Story of Erotic Obsession and Murder - Softcover

If anything ever happens to me... find Ann Rule and ask her to write my story.'

In perhaps the first true crime book written at the request of the victim, Ann Rule untangles a web of lies and brutality that culminated in the murder of Sheila Blackthorne Bellush- a woman Rule never met, but whose shocking story she now chronicles with compassion, exacting detail and unvarnished candour.

Although happily ensconced in a loving second marriage, and a new family of quadruplets, Sheila never truly escpaed the vicious enslavement of her ex-husband, multi-millionaire Allen Blackthorne, a handsome charmer- and a violent controlling sociopath who subjected Sheila to unthinkable abuse in their marriage and terrorised her for a decade after their divorce. When Sheila was slain in her home in the presence of four toddlers, authorities raced to link the crime to Blackthorne, the man who vowed to monitor Sheila's every move in his obsessive quest for power and revenge.