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beckmank 's review for:
The Stranger Beside Me
by Ann Rule
I've been on a huge true-crime kick this year and couldn't pass this one up when I saw it at the bookstore. I've heard this is the "definitive" book on Ted Bundy. While I don't know if I agree with that, it is an interesting account. Ann Rule was contracted to write a book on the unsolved string of murders in the Seattle/Pacific Northwest area, and all the while she was unknowingly friends with the killer. Ms. Rule wrote this in 1980, and the narrative does show that at the time of that writing she had no idea just how terrible Ted Bundy and his murders really were. She has several afterwards to the book throughout the years, which give perspective on how her knowledge and thoughts have changed throughout the years.
This is a good mix of when memoir and true-crime collide, and an interesting perspective not seen in most true crime narratives.
This is a good mix of when memoir and true-crime collide, and an interesting perspective not seen in most true crime narratives.