The Stranger Beside Me: The Shocking Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy

from EadieB

I read this online with about 20 people and it was an excellent discussion. Ann Rule worked overnight at a 24 hour crisis center alongside Ted Bundy. They discussed many things and Ann told him about the serial killer articles she was writing about never thinking that she was talking face to face...

from coloradogirl14

I read horror novels like they're going out of style, I devour twisted psychological suspense stories, and yet I have the strongest reactions to true crime accounts. I guess that's not surprising, since these events actually happened, but The Stranger Beside Me scared the living daylights out of ...

from mrtall

Ann Rule's initial true crime book, sparked off by her friendship with Ted Bundy, possibly the USA's most notorious serial killer, is a milestone in the true crime genre. The events of this book are so unlikely that a fiction writer trying on a similar storyline would be laughed out of the publis...

from audramelissa

Definitive work on Ted Bundy. Very in depth (like most of Ann Rule's works) and of course horrifying because we see how someone as charming as Bundy could fool so many people. It can be a little slow in parts but pretty much everything related to Bundy's crimes and trial are included.

from bookworm12

This nonfiction look at the strange case of Ted Bundy is chilly to say the least. The author knew him well and was researching the killings without realizing she knew the killer. At times it dips into her personal life, which I could have done without, but to be fair, her real life was intertwine...