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The Stranger Beside Me
by Ann Rule

Published: 2008-12-30
Mass Market Paperback : 672 pages
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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 ...
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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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by Joleen M. (see profile) 01/24/23

Ann Rule is the best at true crime writing, she covers the parts that matter, in this special case, she knew Ted Bundy before he was famous, she has insights of how it felt to work beside Ted and how it... (read more)

 
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  "Dramatic, additive book"by marianne d. (see profile) 06/11/09

Everybody loved the book, It was a good read. They were surprised that the author helped him out so much. We all though that she probably liked him at some point. But overall, it was a good read.

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