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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