I picked up The Stranger Beside Me at a garage sale in the spring of 1983. Thirteen years old, I was deep in my V. C. Andrews phase and searching for books that awoke that same forbidden thrill.
I am in awe of Truman Capote’s work. He is an exquisite writer. If you read Other Voices Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Music for Chameleons, which includes the brilliant novella “Handcarved Coffins,” you’ll see what I mean. They are literary classics.
Join Peter Houlahan, author of Norco ’80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History, as he looks back on a number of true crime dramas whose courthouse scenes rival the intensity of the crimes. The blood has dried, the body carted away, the perpetrator in cuffs. So, story over, right? …
Ann Rule, true-crime writing pioneer, died over the weekend at age 83. From the obituary in the Seattle Times: Ms. Rule broke out with her first book, “The Stranger Beside Me,” published in 1980. In it she profiled [serial killer Ted] Bundy, whom she got to know while sharing the late shift at a Seattle…
