A Tangled Web
A Cyberstalker, a Deadly Obsession, and the Twisting Path to Justice.
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4.3 • 124 Ratings
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Publisher Description
In the tradition of her acclaimed mother, Ann Rule, author of The Stranger Beside Me, bestselling author Leslie Rule exposes the trail of a sadistic sociopath, identity thief, and killer . . .
It was a bleak November in 2012 when Cari Farver, thirty-seven, vanished from Omaha, Nebraska. Texts sent indicated that the hardworking mother had quit her job, abandoned her son, and cut ties with everyone. Cari’s boyfriend, Dave Kroupa, accepted the breakup at face value. Her mother, Nancy Raney, however, had doubts. “I need to hear your voice,” Nancy begged. When the texter refused to speak, Nancy reported Cari missing.
While no one saw or spoke to Cari, more than 12,000 sinister emails and texts were sent in her name over the next years. Police believed Dave and his girlfriend, Shanna “Liz” Golyar, when they reported that the missing woman was cyberstalking them. The tormentor was eerily aware of Dave’s every move, knew when Liz visited and threatened the couple. It never occurred to Dave that Cari was a victim—that the real stalker had killed before, and was planning to kill again.
Leslie Rule tracks the heart-pounding path to long-awaited justice—from a twisted past to the deadly deception and the high-tech forensics that condemned the killer to prison.
“Rule's first true crime book hits the mark.”
—Katherine Ramsland, author of
Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader the BTK Killer
“A deft, fascinating true crime story of obsession.”
—Library Journal (Starred Review)
With a New Update by the Author
Includes Reading Group Guide
Customer Reviews
Enjoyed It With Reservtions
This is the first book that I have read authored by crime writer Ann Rule’s daughter. Generally I enjoyed the book, but it did get a bit repetitious at some points. I have three criticisms I would like state. First, I felt it was overkill with the author making the point by repeating various emails that Liz was madly in love with her “ boyfriend.” It was just page after endless page making the same point. Secondly, there were so many relationships between the killer and others in her universe, I would have benefited greatly with a simple chart at the opening of the book to keep these various people and their relationship to Liz straight in my mind. Lastly, since the author was a photographer to her mother’s various true crime books, I assumed there would be a host of pictures of the people discussed in the book. I checked the table of contents several times and saw no such photo section. However, it was only after I finished reading the book and I turned to the last pages that I discovered it was there but was never listed in the table of contents.
True crime
I like true crime. I like books where I get into the kind of a criminal or even the victim as morbid as that sounds. My mom is constantly watching ID and I absolutely love true crime.
When I found out this was her first true crime story, I was genuinely shocked, it was really good! The preface had nothing to do with the story, except an explanation on why the story came to be, and from there I was hooked!
What a rollercoaster! I loved every second, it’s been awhile since I read a book as fast as I read A Tangled Web! We all hear of online dating nightmares, and it was so different to read through one of those dating nightmares, kind of knowing what was going to happen, and still just sitting there for hours after it was over.
All in all, a very solid read!
Great read!
Leslie clearly shares the authoress dna of her mother and has come into her own as n author