title: Don't Look Behind You: Ann Rule's Crime Files #15
author:  Ann Rule 
description: Ann Rule wrote thirty-five<i>New York Times</i>bestsellers, all of them still in print. Her first bestseller was<i>The Stranger Beside Me</i>, about her personal relationship with infamous serial killer Ted Bundy. A former Seattle police officer, she used her firsthand expertise in all her books. For more than three decades, she was a powerful advocate for victims of violent crime. She lived near Seattle and passed away in 2015.
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  ## Jennifer Crusie
  
  ## Anyone But You
  
  ![](Images/logo.jpg)
  
  
  
  
  
  For Meg Ruley, Fred’s godmother and my partner in crime and lit-ra-chure
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Contents
  
  [Acknowledgment](anyonebutyou_ack1.html#ack1)
  
  [Chapter One](anyonebutyou_ch01.html#ch01)
  
  [Chapter Two](anyonebutyou_ch02.html#ch02)
  
  [Chapter Three](anyonebutyou_ch03.html#ch03)
  
  [Chapter Four](anyonebutyou_ch04.html#ch04)
  
  [Chapter Five](anyonebutyou_ch05.html#ch05)
  
  [Chapter Six](anyonebutyou_ch06.html#ch06)
  
  [Chapter Seven](anyonebutyou_ch07.html#ch07)
  
  [Chapter Eight](anyonebutyou_ch08.html#ch08)
  
  [Coming Next Month](anyonebutyou_cnm.html#cnm)
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Acknowledgment
  
  My heartfelt thanks to Laurie Grant for her ER expertise
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Chapter One
  
  The last thing Nina Askew needed was Fred.
  
  “I want a puppy,” she said to the brown-uniformed woman behind the scarred
  metal counter at Riverbend Animal Control. “Something perky.”
  
  “Perky.” The woman sighed. “Sure. We got perky.” She jerked her head toward
  the