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Dead by Sunset

by Ann Rule
Richard Ferrone
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From bestselling author Ann Rule comes the true story of Bradly Morris Cunningham, the handsome and successful entrereneur who married five different women and destroyed each of them.
The author of eight New York Times bestsellers, Ann Rule first won nationwide acclaim with The Stranger Beside Me, about serial killer Ted Bundy. Her Crime Files volumes, based on fascinating case histories, have assured her reputation as our premier chronicler of crime. Now the former Seattle policewoman brings us the horrific account of a charismatic man adored by beautiful and brilliant women who always gave him what he wanted...sex, money, and even their very lives.

When attorney Cheryl Keeton's brutally bludgeoned body was found in her van in the fast lane of an Oregon freeway, her husband, Brad Cunningham, was the likely suspect. But there was no solid evidence linking him to the crime. He married again, for the fifth time, and his stunning new wife, a physician named Sara, adopted his three sons. They all settled down to family life on a luxurious estate. But gradually, their marriage became a nightmare...

In this gripping account of Cheryl's murder, Ann Rule takes us from Brad's troubled boyhood to one of the most bizarre trials in legal history, uncovering multiple marriages, financial manipulations, infidelities, and monstrous acts of harassment and revenge along the way. Dead By Sunset is Ann Rule at her riveting best.

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    March 8, 2011

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      • ISBN: 9781442343030
      • File size: 594561 KB
      • Duration: 20:38:40

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 27, 2003
      True crime writer Rule's latest, about a successful and charismatic banker accused of murdering his estranged wife.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      With the savvy of a law enforcement insider and a fiction writer's perception, Ann Rule calls upon court documents and witness testimony to weave a nightmarish story that begins with the brutal murder of Cheryl Keeton in 1986. Charismatic con-artist Bradley Cunningham, Keeton's ex-husband, is the prime suspect. Through Rule's exhaustive psychological retrospective, Cunningham emerges as a sadistic, maladaptive depressive, whose dark side is eventually exposed. Narrator Richard Ferrone's sexy, intimate reading style is hypnotic as Cunningham seduces, then marries each of five women. Metamorphosing from a charming, courtly lover, Cunningham becomes a different man, and Ferrone's performance mesmerizes. Cunningham berates and brutalizes his wives and daughters and imposes cruel, militaristic discipline upon his sons. Yet Ferrone's nuanced reconstruction of events makes understandable why even smart women would fall for this monster. S.J.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from October 2, 1995
      Brad Cunningham was handsome, brilliant, a high-school hero in his native Seattle, a football star at the University of Washington. His family background was unusual, with a Native American mother of whom he was ashamed and an Anglo father who was contemptuous of women. As an adolescent, Brad was violent with his sisters and his mother. This pattern continued in his first, second and third marriages but reached its apogee with his fourth wife, Cheryl Keeton, a highly successful lawyer by whom he fathered three sons. When their marriage collapsed and she sought custody of their children, Brad, a bank executive, threatened her; in September 1986, she was found bludgeoned to death in her car on an Oregon highway. The case remained unresolved until Cheryl Keeton's estate filed a civil suit for damages against Brad in 1991. A criminal trial followed in 1993, in which Brad was found guilty of murder and sentenced to a minimum of 22 years. Rule (Small Sacrifices) provides a perceptive character analysis of a malignant, self-centered, charismatic con artist. It's a chilling, haunting portrait. Photos not seen by PW. 125,000 first printing; True Crime Book Club main selection; Doubleday Book Club, Literary Guild and Mystery Guild featured alternates; Reader's Digest Nonfiction Condensed Book Club selection; Tri-Star/NBC-TV miniseries to air in November.

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