Have you ever read any true crime novels? 📖. . I confess that I have always found them fascinating but I don’t often make time for them in my reading lineup. For one thing, they kind of terrify me and I like to live in a naive state where I pretend there aren’t evil people in the world. Totally unacceptable, I know. Many years ago I read Helter Skelter, which is about Charles Manson and his followers and that scared me so badly! I am very curious about this book The Stranger Beside me by Ann Rule. She was a friend and coworker of serial killer Ted Bundy and this is her story of the time surrounding the murders and after. It sounds like such an interesting read... I just need to sum up the bravery to crack it open! 😬. . Thank you much to @gallerybooks for gifting me with this free copy! _____________________________________________________ Utterly unique in its astonishing intimacy, as jarringly frightening as when it first appeared, Ann Rule's The Stranger Beside Me defies our expectation that we would surely know if a monster lived among us, worked alongside of us, appeared as one of us. With a slow chill that intensifies with each heart-pounding page, Rule describes her dawning awareness that Ted Bundy, her sensitive coworker on a crisis hotline, was one of the most prolific serial killers in America. He would confess to killing at least thirty-six young women from coast to coast, and was eventually executed for three of those cases. Drawing from their correspondence that endured until shortly before Bundy's death, and striking a seamless balance between her deeply personal perspective and her role as a crime reporter on the hunt for a savage serial killer -- the brilliant and charismatic Bundy, the man she thought she knew -- Rule changed the course of true-crime literature with this unforgettable chronicle. #thestrangerbesideme #annrule #annrulebooks #gallerybooks #truecrime #truecrimebook #bookstagram #readersofinstagram #onmytbr #sweaterweather #flatlay #bookflatlay https://www.instagram.com/p/BsvV1P_l_7o/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=6vxq48skoqhi