Stranger Beside Me

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Ann Rule: Stranger Beside Me (1994, Little, Brown Book Group Limited)

English language

Published Jan. 2, 1994 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.

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978-0-7515-1347-9
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There are actually two stories here: one describes the gradual disintegration of a seemingly normal, affable, brilliant man into a sexual psychopath so evil, so methodical in his vicious killings, that one wonders if he was at all human. The other story is that of Ann Rule herself, a decent, hard-working, middle-aged mother of four who meets and befriends a nice young man working beside her in a crisis clinic. A man she regards as a younger brother; a man she views as a close and trusted friend. The slow but inexorable realization on Rule's part that this man is in fact an unspeakably violent serial killer is as painful to read as it was for her to experience.

Each victim is described in terms of such respect and such anguish that even a family member, I think, can feel that his or her daughter has been given a chance …

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Subjects

  • Criminals, biography
  • Serial murders
  • Murder, united states