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Dark Tide
Dark Tide: Growing Up With Ted Bundy | Edna Cowell Martin, Megan Atkinson
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Including never-before-seen photos and handwritten letters from Bundy, Dark Tides message is as gut-wrenching as it is clear, asking the question: how well do we know those we trust most? Ednas world turned upside down when her close cousin, Ted Bundy, was linked to the gruesome murders that had plagued her hometown of Seattle. Both devastating and dangerous, she reveals her journey of discovering the truth about her cousin who was more like a sibling, a man she loved, admired, and thought she knew so well. Edna delves into the unbelievable and chilling episodes she experienced, from confronting Ted and discovering a side of him she never suspected to waking to the FBI at her door after he escaped jail. Whether searching memories for signs shed missed or detailing scenes of life under the radar in a world still fixated on her cousin, Ednas account tells the Ted Bundy story from a critical, new perspective: someone who called him family.
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Dark Tide: Growing Up With Ted Bundy | Edna Cowell Martin, Megan Atkinson
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Edna Cowell's life was happy & fairly idyllic at first. Growing up with her parents & a brother, Edna was also close with her cousin Ted Bundy. Intelligent & charismatic, Ted was more of a second sibling to Edna, which is why when he was arrested for several murders, Edna struggled to believe it was true. Edna came to realise that the man she thought she knew had a dark side. This is a memoir which asks: can we ever truly know another person?

OutsmartYourShelf This is a really fascinating read but if you want to know about the actual murders, this is not the book for that. There are a lot of books out there on Ted Bundy but this one really gives a different perspective. It must be so difficult to wrap your head around the fact that someone you grew up with, were close to, turns out to have committed heinous crimes whilst continuing to behave absolutely normal to you. 4mo
OutsmartYourShelf That moment in the car with just the two of them when Edna realises that Ted is guilty after all & slowly turns to look at him & he is just smiling at her - truly chilling!

Written in an interesting yet informal voice, I felt as if I were having a chat with the author & became really invested in her story. I absolutely recommend it.
5🌟

My thanks to #NetGalley & publishers, Post Hill Press/Permuted Press, for the opportunity to read an ARC. 4mo
OutsmartYourShelf Full Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6587725910
Read 17th-22nd July 2024

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DieAReader 🥳Fantastic! 4mo
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Dark Tide: Growing Up With Ted Bundy | Edna Cowell Martin, Megan Atkinson
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I have read all the books about Ted Bundy but I really enjoyed this one. Dark Tide is about Ted's growing up and living with his cousin, Edna Cowell. She remembers having fun with him while living in Puget Sound, near Seattle Washington. She only recalls a couple of times that she saw Ted's dark side.

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EadieB One while he was dancing with a friend of Edna's she saw his pupil's turning black as he was smiling down looking at who he was dancing with. She also witnessed his smoking of pot which turned him into a wild, crazy person dancing on a coffee table. These times were scary and not typical of her cousin. Her father even wrote to the prosecutor to be kind to him while he was incarcerated. 4mo
EadieB The family believed that he was being wrongly prosecuted until the police showed them proof that he murdered so many of the women. He even hid their bodies where he and his cousin John, Edna's brother, went hiking in the mountains. Edna wrote many letters to Bundy asking him to tell the police all that he knew. She shared the letters and pictures of Bundy in the book. 4mo
EadieB They kept the secret that they were related to Bundy for 50 years but finally they started to admit that they were related. Edna decided to finally tell her story and wrote Dark Tide. If you like true crime then you will love this book. It goes to show that you never get to know a person even after growing up with them. Even their daughter, Anna, lives with the knowledge that she has a serial killer as a relative. Highly recommended! 4mo
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TheSpineView Sounds interesting. 👍📖📚 4mo
dabbe I was in Chi Omega sorority at U of A back in the early 80s (Bundy murdered women at the Chi Omega house at FSU). Since those murders, we all were required to sleep together on one huge sleeping porch for our safety. I've read quite a few book on him, too. Horrifying. 😱 4mo
Suet624 I‘m fascinated by him as well but I just can‘t bring myself to read anything about him. 4mo
DieAReader 🥳Awesome! #Stacked 4mo
EadieB @dabbe How scary! That‘s after he escaped from prison and went to Florida, 4mo
dabbe @EadieB Yep. We got the big lecture about how to stay safe and to never sleep in our rooms (we all had one day bed in each room). That's what got me interested in real crime nonfiction. 4mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4mo
perfectsinner Nice, adding to the tbr 4mo
EadieB @dabbe That's interesting! 4mo
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