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pretty good for virtual voice

Revisado: 05-01-24

I have read almost all books on Bundy, with my vision loss, I was never able to read this one so I was very excited to find it was finally available in audio. when I saw that it was virtual voice I was afraid, but it's actually really good. I've listened to books with was way worse actual narrator. I'm excited to see how virtual voice grows. aside from some mispronunciations, which were easy to get through because, again, actual narrator have some worse, I was impressed. it's a great story and nothing is lost using virtual voice, and if you have an open mind, you'll be fine. in life and in reading books.

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Great add for anyone looking to learn about Bundy

Revisado: 09-17-21

I liked this book. if you are a fan of reading about Bundy then you know most of this information, but the way the story is told here is good. I also love how they completely roast Ann Rule whenever they get the chance.

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excellent book. truly one of the best

Revisado: 12-17-18

given how recent this is I was surprised and please with how this came out. it may be decades before we find out everything about The Golden State Killer/ East Area Rapist/ The Original Night Stalker, but given what we have now this was well put together, engaging, and held my interest. Kudos to Audible for this original.

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just okay

Revisado: 08-05-18

I struggled with this book. I don't know if all former agents have a model when they choose to write about their lives and cases, but every one I've read had the same tone. three was interesting information about some cases that I didn't know, but I just didn't vibe with it. it felt hollow and for a man who's lived such an amazing unique experience I thought there'd be more to it. and I hated the narrator, but that's not how fault he isn't Kevin Pierce

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fascinating book for true crime and science lovers

Revisado: 07-17-18

goodness this book was amazing! Steve Jackson wtf into wonderful detail on a lot of stories of heard about on old episodes of forensic files, and gave details and insight pregnant unknown. I was officially taken with the Michelle Wallace case which granted Necro Search International their first successful body find.

the Chilton from The Pig Purple to NecroSearch Intestinal was amazing the way that these scientists and law enforcement officials came together to use multi disciplines to find the dead as well as research meticulously how the decomposition process can make the finding of clandestine graves an easier processes is a restaurant to just how, frankly, fucking cool humans are.

if you love science, true crime, and justice this is a great book.

and, of course, Kevin Pierce's narration was beautiful. that man could read a takeout menu and I'd buy it. he always adds so much depth and respect to the story, to the people, and is fantastic as usual.

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I live in a small town probably die ina small town

Revisado: 07-16-18

this being my first Grisham book and his first foray into non fiction,I wasn't impressed. the story was a fascinating look into small town politics, and Ron's decent into madness was saddening. I hate those books where no one wants to talk to the author so they cobble together a book using city and court records as well as interview people on the periphery of the case. they got a lot of first hand information, but the writing was just okay and the narration was nothing to write home about.

I'm not excited about his fiction work if this is any indication.

read this book if you want to say WTF every ten minutes, be brow beaten by the corrput, cruel, and unjust "justice" system, and take a look at how enabling, hero worship, mental illness and murder came together, ruined 6 lives and brought unimaginable pain to families that may never heal.

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just okay

Revisado: 07-07-18

books like this and the one on Maura Murray where purple completely involved in the case don't want to talk to the author so they could together a story using court records and people on the fringe are hollow. you don't learn very much at all and the authors constant connecting of the family and Amanda herself I found distasteful, boorish, and gross. this book is just okay. adequately written, good pacing, good narration, but it could've been a half hour special or a 20/20 episode and done the same thing.

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a real missed opportunity

Revisado: 06-28-18

I was so excited to read a book about a serial murderer that I hadn't heard of, instead I got this jerky mismanaged poorly done book that probably would've done better in the hands of someone else. perhaps it's because we never really get to know the man at the center of the book, and perhaps that's not this author's fault. the narration was overdramatic and unbearable at times. I struggled with this book so much I returned it. it was that bad.

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infuriatingly good

Revisado: 06-12-18

this book gave me a migraine because of the absolutely preposterous nature of what actually happened. I can't believe this is a real story and I absolutely can believe this is a real story.

as for the book itself it referenced a prior book and case on the Groveland boys so often that if you happened to pick this one up first you'd be lost to the references, as when mentioned or rarely went into details. I thought that was poor. also, story wise it felt like it skipped around and told a lot of other stories at once, but I reasoned that it's to paint the picture of one of the last bastions of the old south.

the heroines of the book, Mabel and Pearl, and the star Jesse, were fantasticly captured. a mothers love taking up with a deeply held sense of justice together fought the law and, eventually, won.

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heard it all before

Revisado: 05-18-18

This book was a nightmare to get through 90+ chapters and nothing new or relevant happens after the first 40. toxic masculinity strikes again in the story of Rick and Elizabeth. Kevin Pierce was as usual terrific as a narrator, but the book was weak, long winded, and tired. the shit in the dark attempts to make this similar to the OJ Simpson case was tired. find a forensic files episode or something this didn't need to be a book.

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