Bundy:The Deliberate Stranger

By: Richard W. Larsen

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins

Publisher's summary

THE TRUE CRIME CLASSIC THAT STARTED IT ALL. NOW REISSUED. Richard W. Larsen’s expose, based on first-hand conversations with the killer himself, remains the granddaddy Bundy book of them all – even inspiring a hit miniseries, starring Mark Harmon, that riveted America for weeks. Now BUNDY: THE DELIBERATE STRANGER returns to mark the 30th anniversary of the execution of America’s most famous serial killer. Between 1974 and 1978 a series of brutal sex slayings claimed the lives of nearly forty innocent young women and left a trail of blood that stretched from Seattle, Washington to Tallahassee, Florida...a trail that seemed to lead to Ted Bundy. But Theodore Robert Bundy is an unlikely looking murderer. A handsome, articulate former law student, Bundy looks more like a candidate for public office than for Death Row. But in July 1979, 32-year-old Bundy was sentenced to the electric chair for bludgeoning to death two Florida coeds. And Bundy is suspected by police of being responsible for as many as 36 murders, spanning four years and four states. Larsen, who knew Ted Bundy well before he ever fell under suspicion for murder – when Bundy was a rising star in Washington State politics helping to re-elect Governor Daniel Evans – interviewed Bundy extensively in writing the definitive account of his story. In 1975, when Bundy was released on bail after his first arrest – a kidnapping charge in Utah – it was Larsen who met him at the door of the police headquarters and spend the day with him, and Larsen who lent Bundy his car after dinner so he could go out on the town that night, catching himself on the verge of parting joke – “Ted, I’d just as soon not read in the morning paper that some girl mysteriously disappeared in a Gremlin” In BUNDY: THE DELIBERATE STRANGER, Larsen brings his masterful reporting and writing skills to bear on one of the most chilling, true crime stories in U.S. history. From the moment the first young woman disappears under mysterious circumstances, you are caught up in a cumulatively tense and gripping drama. Larsen has captured it all: the anguish of the parents, the frustration of the police, the horror of discovery, the growing suspicions and mounting evidence pointing to “all-American” Ted, the drama of his arrest, his incredible escapes – one from prison, one from a courthouse – his recaptures and the sensational, televised Florida murder trial at which Bundy conducted his own defense. And through it all, the enigmatic figure of Ted Bundy – the deliberate stranger – known by the author as well as he will ever be known by any person. At once an exciting, fast-paced thriller, and a dazzling, unsentimental dissection of a cold-blooded killer, BUNDY: A DELIBERATE STRANGER is a true crime classic

Virtual Voice

Virtual voice is the most god awful thing to listen to. Hire a real person you cheapskates!

Excellent book!

The narrator is horrible! The book is so compellingly interesting that I was able to struggle past the readers flat voice and mispronunciation and blocky reading.

Good enough...

A well-written book that (just barely) overcome the robot narration. C'mon, Amazon. Don't you make enough money without putting voiceover artists out of work?

Hate virtual voice.

Good story but hire voice talent. It has no inflection emotion and improper pronunciation is annoying.

Writing quality

Author knew Bundy in Washington state and brings an intimate perspective to the story. Covers some details from the detectives not previously discussed. Smooth read on a difficult topic.

The clarity of the author’s research

I was taken by this book’s approach to a strong attempt to understand who Bundy was rather than fixate on the gore of his monstrosities.

I have read a lot of Bundy books. This is one of the best

Very good book. The computer narration was a little disappointing. I would rank this TB book as one of the best.

Find an actual person!

The book is great, but the AI Reader makes it quite a struggle at times to continue. Complete lack of inflection and total mispronunciation of several items, as well as a lack of understanding common colloquialisms makes this a difficult listen, but the content overall makes it worthwhile.