![]() My thanks to Netgalley and Simon Element for an advance copy of this book. Or in the case of a reporter, to use The Defendant as a stepping stone to his own fame and glory. But it’s also a story about male incompetence men wanting The Defendant to be smart to mask their own mistakes. Because the story truly is about the young women here who are the bright ones, finally recognizing their own worth and intelligence. The title is a play on the words of the Florida judge who called Ted Bundy “a bright young man”. She’s created a consistent tension, a current of suspense that runs throughout the story, but that never veers into the sensational. Knoll has done an excellent job of getting the feel for the period, especially that weird polite mindset of young women not yet caught up in the women’s liberation movement. The characters felt fleshed out and real. I loved that this wasn’t the typical criminal or psychological thriller. There’s also a side story about a woman named Ruth, a young woman finding her own identity and becoming comfortable with her true self. The two team up, doing their own investigation when the Sheriff seems focused on another man. She meets a woman who has flown in from the west, a woman convinced she knows who the killer is. From there, the story goes back and forth between the present and past. In the early hours, she hears a noise and goes to investigate and sees a man leaving the House. Pamela Schumacher is the president of her sorority in 1978 and has chosen to stay home on Saturday night to catch up on paperwork. It proposes a new narrative inspired by evidence that’s been glossed over for decades in favor of more salable headlines-that the so-called brilliant and charismatic serial killer from Seattle was far more average than the countless books, movies, and primetime specials have led us to believe, and that it was the women whose lives he cut short who were the exceptional ones.īright Young Women is based on the real life murders of two sorority members by Ted Bundy. Determined to make him answer for what he did to Ruth, she travels to Florida on a collision course with Pamela-and one last impending tragedy.īright Young Women is the story about two women from opposite sides of the country who become sisters in their fervent pursuit of the truth. When she hears about the tragedy in Tallahassee, she knows it’s the man the papers refer to as the All-American Sex Killer. When Ruth goes missing from Lake Sammamish State Park in broad daylight, surrounded by thousands of beachgoers on a beautiful summer day, Tina devotes herself to finding out what happened to her. ![]() A chance encounter brings twenty-five-year-old Ruth Wachowsky into her life, a young woman with painful secrets of her own, and the two form an instant connection. ![]() On the other side of the country, Tina Cannon has found peace in Seattle after years of hardship. Over the next few days, Pamela is thrust into a terrifying mystery inspired by the crime that’s captivated public interest for more than four decades. What she finds behind the door is a scene of implausible violence-two of her sisters dead two others, maimed. by a strange sound, she makes the fateful decision to investigate. ![]() Tonight is a night of promise, excitement, and desire, but Pamela Schumacher, president of the sorority, makes the unpopular decision to stay home-a decision that unwittingly saves her life. A serial killer has terrorized women across the Pacific Northwest, but his existence couldn’t be further from the minds of the vibrant young women at the top sorority on Florida State University’s campus in Tallahassee. An extraordinary novel inspired by the real-life sorority targeted by America's first celebrity serial killer in his final murderous spree. ![]()
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