Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors by Ann Rule

 In this anthology, Ann Rule writes about cases where friends or neighbors were the agents of violence.  The book starts with two longer novellas.  The first is about the Susan Powell case and the evil perpetrated by her husband and father-in-law.  The second is about the case of Becky Zahua whose body was found hung while she was nude days after her boyfriend's young son fell in an accident that took his life.

Other cases are shorter and include things like a young girl who disappeared while her aunt was watching her go around the house into the back yard, another teenage girl whose mother saw her wrestling with what turned out to be her killer in their yard and other cases.

Ann Rule is known as the queen of true crime.   She was a former Seattle police officer and her 35 true crime books are all still in print, although Ann died in 2015.  She rose to fame when she wrote The Stranger Beside Me about Ted Bundy.  She and Bundy worked together on a suicide prevention line.  This is the sixteenth book in her series Crime Files and is recommended for true crime readers.