The Stranger Beside Me

She was his close friend and colleague.She thought she knew him well.But she didn't know the monster within . . .When Ann Rule and Ted Bundy became friends while working at a Seattle crisis clinic in 1971, she had no idea that her kind, charismatic co-worker would go on to become one of the world's most notorious serial killers, who confessed to murdering at least thirty-six women across America. In The Stranger Beside Me, Rule details not only her personal relationship with Bundy, but his life; covering everything from his complicated childhood to the media circus revolving around his trials, and his eventual execution.An unforgettable work of research, journalism and personal memories, The Stranger Beside Me defies the expectation that we would know if a monster walked among us.