The Stranger Beside Me (Revised and Updated): 20th Anniversary
by Ann Rule
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Author: Ann RuleEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-06-01
ISBN: 0451203267
Number of pages: 560
Publisher: Signet
Book Reviews of The Stranger Beside Me (Revised and Updated): 20th Anniversary
Book Review: True Crime Aficionado
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of Ann Rule's best books. Her personal insight into Ted Bundy's world is chilling and amazing. It drives home the point that many serial killers don't look like monsters but rather the "guy next door". Women, I've read every book by Ann Rule and have learned, trust your gut and if something doesn't feel right, run. Don't feel guilty about turning down a strangers request for help for it may be a ruse. Thank you Ann Rule for this masterpiece into the mind of a serial killer.
Summary of The Stranger Beside Me (Revised and Updated): 20th Anniversary
Ann Rule was a writer working on the biggest story of her life, tracking down a brutal mass-murderer. Little did she know that Ted Bundy, her close friend, was the savage slayer she was hunting.The most fascinating killer in modern American history...Ann Rule has an extraordinary angle that makes The Stranger Beside Me as dramatic and chilling as a bedroom window shattering at midnight. (The New York Times)
Overwhelming. (The Houston Post)
A shattering story...carefully investigated, written with compassion but also with professional objectivity. (Seattle Times)
Not long ago, true crime writer Ann Rule recalls lying on an operating table. The anesthesiologist leaned over before putting her to sleep. "Ann," the anesthesiologist said softly, "tell me, what was Ted Bundy really like?" Despite meeting Florida's electric chair in 1989, the subject of Rule's bestselling book continues to haunt her. Rule and Bundy were friends. They met in 1971 at a Seattle crisis clinic, where they shared the late shift answering a suicide hotline. Their subsequent conversations, meetings, and letters spanned the rest of Bundy's life as he evolved into one of the century's most notorious serial killers. It's been 20 years since Rule first penned this chilling account. But the story--and her 2000 update--will still have readers reaching for their Xanax. No gratuitous gore here; just the basic, bone-chilling evidence. In fact, like a protective mother shielding us from horrors too awful to mention, Rule seems to avoid delving too deeply into crime scene descriptions. She devotes one paragraph in her new afterword to her discovery that Bundy engaged in necrophilia and returned to the scenes of his crimes to "line dead lips and eyes with garish makeup and to put blush on pale cheeks." She tells readers that John Hinckley, who shot Ronald Reagan, and David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam Killer, traded prison correspondences with Bundy. And she hints that Bundy's insatiable killer instincts may have started when he was a 14-year-old paperboy. (Ann Marie Burr, an 8-year-old girl on his route, mysteriously disappeared in the middle of the night and has never been found.) The skimpy update is over too soon, leaving readers wanting more and offering further proof of the public's never-ending fascination with serial killers. --Jodi Mailander Farrell
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