The Stranger Beside Me

Before she was a bestselling true crime author, Ann Rule worked with Ted Bundy at a Seattle crisis hotline. She considered him a good friend. When Bundy was first identified as a suspect, Rule could not believe it. Yet as she investigated, the evidence became undeniable. The Stranger Beside Me reads like a compelling novel, but it is all too real. Written by one of America's most acclaimed crime writers, it is the story of a monstrous killer as seen through the eyes of someone who knew him — and who struggled to reconcile the charming, caring man she thought she knew with the sadistic murderer he turned out to be.