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Sep 2023, 384 pages
Paperback:
Aug 6, 2024, 400 pages
Book Reviewed by:
Jillian Bell
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The judge who sentenced serial killer Ted Bundy to death infamously (and bizarrely) told him: "You're a bright young man. You would have made a good lawyer." The title of Jessica Knoll's novel Bright Young Women is a play on these remarks. A fictionalized take on Bundy's crimes, it shines the spotlight not on the murderer, but on the brilliant women whose lives he cut short.
Set primarily in the 1970s, the book tells the story of prelaw student Pamela Schumacher and trainee therapist Tina Cannon as they seek justice for their slain loved ones. Pamela's friend Denise was killed in an attack on their sorority house at Florida State University, while Tina's beloved Ruth went missing after being lured away from a lake near Seattle. Bright Young Women shows Pamela and Tina's fight to hold the murderer accountable as they bump up against flawed police work and a sexist legal system. It's ...
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