“It’s a bit like Baby Reindeer. . .” Cambridge author Kate Rhodes shares the real-life story behind her newest thriller, The Stalker “Before I was stalked, I thought you had to be a public figure, a celebrity or very beautiful to be a victim of stalking. But you don’t have to be any of those things: an ordinary person just going about their business can get targeted by someone with a fixation. “I met my stalker on the day I started my first university job: I was on an induction as a new lecturer and he was on an induction as a new student. Everyone was queuing for coffee and he just came over …