<p><span class="a-text-bold">THE</span><span> </span><span class="a-text-bold">NEW EDITION OF THE TRUE CRIME CLASSIC</span><span><br><br></span><span class="a-text-bold">The Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy</span><span><br><br></span><span class="a-text-bold">Ann Rule was a writer working on the biggest story of her life, tracking down a brutal mass-murderer.</span><span> </span><span class="a-text-bold">Little did she know that the young man who was her close friend was the savage slayer she was hunting . . .</span><span><br><br></span><span class="a-text-bold">TED BUNDY</span><span> was everyone's picture of a natural 'winner' - handsome, charming, brilliant in law school, successful with women, on the verge of a dazzling career. <br><br>Fast-forward to 24 January 1989, Ted Bundy is executed. He had confessed to taking the lives of at least thirty-five young women, coast to coast.<br><br>This is his story: the story of his magnetic power, his unholy compulsion, his demonic double life and his string of helpless victims. It was written by a woman who thought she knew Ted Bundy, until she began to put all the evidence together and the whole terrifying picture emerged . . .<br><br></span><span class="a-text-bold">As recommended by the hosts of the podcast </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic">My Favourite Murder.</span><span><br><br></span><span class="a-text-bold">Fascinating further reading for viewers of the Netflix documentary </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic">Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes.</span></p>
<div class="a-row a-expander-container a-expander-extend-container"> <h3><span>Review</span></h3> <div class="a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small"> <span>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 ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">The New York Times</span> </div> <h3><span>Book Description</span></h3> <div class="a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small"> <p><span class="a-text-bold">The international true crime classic</span><span><br><br></span><span class="a-text-bold">More than 2 million copies sold in the English language alone</span></p> </div> <div data-expanded="true" class="a-expander-content a-expander-extend-content a-expander-content-expanded" style="overflow: hidden;"> <h3><span>From the Back Cover</span></h3> <div class="a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small"> <p><span class="a-text-bold">She was his close friend and colleague.</span><span><br></span><span class="a-text-bold">She thought she knew him well.</span><span><br></span><span class="a-text-bold">But she didn't know the monster within . . .</span><span><br><br><br>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. <br><br><br>In </span><span class="a-text-italic">The Stranger Beside Me</span><span>, 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.<br><br><br>An unforgettable work of research, journalism and personal memories, </span><span class="a-text-italic">The Stranger Beside Me</span><span> defies the expectation that we would know if a monster walked among us.</span></p> </div> <h3><span>About the Author</span></h3> <div class="a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small"> <span>Ann Rule wrote thirty-five </span><span class="a-text-italic">New York Times</span><span> bestsellers. Her first bestseller was </span><span class="a-text-italic">The Stranger Beside Me</span><span>, about her personal relationship with infamous serial killer Ted Bundy. A former Seattle police officer, she used her firsthand expertise in all her books. For more than three decades, she was a powerful advocate for victims of violent crime. She lived near Seattle and passed away in 2015.</span> </div> </div> <div class="a-row"> <a data-csa-c-func-deps="aui-da-a-expander-toggle" data-csa-c-type="widget" data-csa-interaction-events="click" aria-expanded="true" role="button" href="javascript:void(0)" data-action="a-expander-toggle" class="a-expander-header a-declarative a-expander-extend-header" data-a-expander-toggle="{"allowLinkDefault":true, "expand_prompt":"Read more", "collapse_prompt":""}" data-csa-c-id="dgb8ne-dorgr7-pig053-lxcgne"><i class="a-icon a-icon-extender-collapse"></i><span class="a-expander-prompt"></span></a> </div> </div>
