The author here is on a mission to prove that Ted Bundy and other serial killers are not genius masterminds.  In this novel, the Ted Bundy character is known simply as The Defendant, and we learn fairly early in the novel that he murdered two sorority sisters near the end of a killing spree that stretched from Washington State to Florida.  The focus here is on the victims and the two first-person narrators—Pamela and Ruth.  To further complicate matters a bit, Pamela narrates in two different timelines—the immediate aftermath of the murders of two of her FSU sorority sisters and several decades later.  Ruth is a victim whose body is never found.  Pamela also witnesses the escape of the murderer as he exits her sorority house, making her one of the few people who can identify him.  The writing here is good, and the plot is very suspenseful but confusing at times, and not just because of the dual narrators and three timelines.  A journalist named Carl apparently sees himself as the next Truman Capote, but I was unable to follow exactly how he fit into the picture.  Although I realize that the author does not want to give The Defendant too much airtime, I couldn’t follow his various arrests, extraditions, and prison escapes, and my morbid curiosity led me to wonder exactly how he slipped through so many fingers.  Finally, there’s Ruth’s friend and mentor, Tina, who has made it her personal mission to make sure that The Defendant is brought to justice, but various law enforcement officials warn Pamela that Tina is dangerous.  I was never sure if the author’s intent here was to introduce a red herring or simply to highlight the poor judgment and incompetence that allowed so many women to lose their lives even after The Defendant had been taken into custody—multiple times.