A review by adam75241
The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule

4.0

As Ann Rule notes, there are so many murders it's impossible for readers to know each girl, understand each had a complex and detailed life, and were not just names, that they were much more than the names and numbers attributed to Ted Bundy. And that's exactly why I gave this four stars instead of five—I felt there was something vital missing here. Maybe this is a sort of subtext to "The Stranger Beside Me," that Ted was also far removed from his victims, that his disturbed mind would not let him comprehend the personal association to each girl, the personal psychology each life holds, and although I am left a bit unfulfilled because of this, I think Rule's prose was as well as it could have been given her relationship with Ted and her disassociation to his secret life. We are all disconnect from it. Except for those girls, forever gone.