The Stranger Beside Me
Ann Rule’s The Stranger Beside Me is a true crime classic for every bookshelf. A deep, dark dive into the world of Ted Bundy by someone who got to know him before he wreaked havoc on society.
A new edition of the iconic, best-selling account of America’s most fascinating serial killer, “perhaps the most unnerving true-crime book ever published” (Victoria Beale, The New Yorker), with a foreword by Georgia Hardstark.
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 bru...






