The Stranger Beside Me: The Twentieth Anniversary Edition

A new edition of the iconic best-selling account of Americas most fascinating serial killer perhaps the most unnerving true-crime book ever published (Victoria Beale The New Yorker). In 1971 while working the late-shift at a Seattle crisis clinic true-crime writer Ann Rule struck up a friendship with a sensitive charismatic young coworker: Ted Bundy. Three years later eight young women disappeared in seven months and Rule began tracking a brutal mass murderer. But she had no idea that the Ted the police were seeking was the same Ted who had become her close friend and confidant. As she put the evidence together a terrifying picture emerged of the man she thought she knewhis magnetic power his bleak compulsion his double life and most of all his string of helpless victims. Bundy eventually confessed to killing at least thirty-six women across the country. Forty years after its initial publication The Stranger Beside Me remains a gripping intimate and unforgettable true-crime classic as dramatic and chilling as a bedroom window shattering at midnight (New York Times).