Don't Look Behind You: and Other True Cases

Publisher Marketing: I'll be watching you. Walking home on a dark night, you hear footsteps coming up behind you. As they get closer, your heart pounds harder. Who is closing in with dangerous intent a total stranger? Or someone you know and trust? The answer is as simple as turning around, but don t look behind you run. Ann Rule, who shared her own nerve-jangling account of unknowingly befriending sadistic sociopath Ted Bundy in "The Stranger Beside Me," chronicles other fateful encounters with the hidden predators among us in this riveting collection, fifteenth in the bestselling series drawn from her personal files. First in line is a stunning case that spanned thirty years and took a determined detective to four states ending, finally, in Alaska where he unraveled not one but two murders. A second case appears to begin and end with the hunt for the Green River Killer, focusing on a Washington State man who was once cleared as a suspect in that deadly chain of homicides. But the millionaire property owner believed he had successfully buried his own murderous past and the awful truth behind his young wife s disappearance. She vanished soon after she left for a day at the Seattle World s Fair, and her three small children grew up believing their mother had abandoned them. But one amazing witness remained the missing woman s best friend, who heard her last words in a frantic phone call He s coming! before the line went dead. Only since Robert Hansen s suicide has the monster within been revealed. In another true story, a petite woman went to a tavern, looking only for conversation and fun. Instead, she met violent death in the form of a seven-foot man who had seemed shy and harmless. You ll feel a chill as you uncover these and numerous other cases of unfortunate victims who made one tragic mistake: trusting the wrong person even someone they d known intimately, or thought they knew." Contributor Bio:  Rule, Ann Ann Rule is the author of thirty "New York Times" bestsellers, all of them still in print. Her first bestseller was "The Stranger Beside Me", about her personal relationship to infamous serial killer Ted Bundy. A former Seattle police officer, she knows the crime scene firsthand. For more than two decades, she has been a powerful advocate for victims of violent crime. She lives near Seattle. Visit her at AuthorAnnRule.com. Contributor Bio:  Merlington, Laural Laural Merlington has recorded well over one hundred audiobooks and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards, including one for Never Say Die by Susan Jacoby.