The Stranger Beside Me, (Hardcover)

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 Danielle.Desrochers

This book was so good. It was a bit on the long side, but I feel like Ann was just trying to work out what actually happened and what she thought as it was going on. She was candid and easy to understand and I can't wait to read more of her books.

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 Andy5185

If you like true crime and have not yet read this, I urge you to check it out. I'd say it is the book that DEFINITIVELY got me interested in reading true crime when I read it many moons ago. Ted Bundy was an appalling human and also gave us the 70s/80s serial killer blueprint. Shocking, deplorabl...