num_pages: 548
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
titlecomplete: The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
characters: Ted Bundy
genres: Audiobook, Biography, Crime, Horror, Adult, Mystery, Nonfiction, True Crime, History, Memoir
ratings_count: 96629
places: Washington (state)
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Washington State Book Award
publisher: Signet