Ann Rule

Ann Rule is a writer of popular non-fiction works about crime and criminals. She first came to prominence with her book The Stranger Beside Me, a book about the Ted Bundy murders. At the time she started researching the book, the murders were still unsolved. In the course of time, it became clear that the killer was Bundy, her own personal friend and her colleague as a trained volunteer on the suicide hotline at the Seattle, Washington Crisis Clinic.