num_pages: 812
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
titlecomplete: The Stranger Beside Me
characters: Ted Bundy
genres: True Crime, Crime, Audiobook, History, Biography, Memoir, Adult, Horror, Nonfiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 96652
places: Washington (state)
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Washington State Book Award
publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.