THE DEFINITIVE WORK OF AMERICAN TRUE CRIME FROM “AMERICA’S BEST TRUE-CRIME WRITER” (Kirkus Reviews)
Utterly unique in its astonishing intimacy, as jarringly frightening as when it first appeared, Ann Rule’s The Stranger Beside Me defies our expectation that we would surely know if a monster lived among us, worked alongside of us, appeared as one of us. With a slow chill that intensifies with each heart-pounding page, Rule describes her dawning awareness that Ted Bundy, her sensitive coworker on a crisis hotline, was one of the most prolific serial killers in America. He would confess to killing at least thirty-six young women from coast to coast, and was eventually executed for three of those cases. Drawing from their correspondence that endured until shortly before Bundy’s death, and striking a seamless balance between her deeply personal perspective and her role as a crime reporter on the hunt for a savage serial killer — the brilliant and charismatic Bundy, the man she thought she knew — Rule changed the course of true-crime literature with this unforgettable chronicle.
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Summary
This true crime book is a great story. Ann Rule is one of my favorite authors as her books are so easy to read and follow as she writes seamlessly. This particular book really hits home for the author as the criminal she was tracking was the man sitting next to her at a place she worked. Ted Bundy is well known, but this story gives the inside scoop that we have not heard about on TV or read about in the newspapers. Even a friend you work with, could be a serial killer.
Violence-As this is a true crime story, the crimes are well documented, but nothing too graphic - just true life.