This is an excellent expansion-companion book to the author's previous 2009 book “The Bundy Murders: A Comprehensive History”. I do suggest that readers start with his first book to get a complete background and history of the actual murders.

The first book can still be purchased on amazon both new and used, from several sellers:

This book takes it a step further and gives previously unreleased information. The author did a lot of research for both of his books – visiting the States, cities, and locations where Ted Bundy grew up, lived and where he stalked his many victims. The author discusses new theories, new possibilities, circumstances that seem to have a very high probability of being accurate. Ted Bundy refused to admit to the murders of children, or recanted what he did discuss, and lacking enough physical evidence, the killer has taken these secrets to his grave. The author attempts to get into the mind of Ted Bundy and understand the actions of a killer, to help the reader understand the impossible.

This book, along with the author's first book, shows the level of both discipline and dedication the author has devoted to the subject. I look forward to reading his next book about the Bundy murders. This subject; the people, the places, the murders, the killer, will no doubt be a part of the author's life forever. Whether that's good or bad is a question only the author can answer. Some things are destined to haunt you forever.

Thank you to the author, and netgalley for allowing me to read this book in exchange for an honest opinion. My review will be posted on amazon, netgalley, goodreads and moonshineartspotblogspot

I have always been fascinated by Ted Bundy and enjoy true crime written about this topic. This novel did provide some new insights into Ted's case; however, I found the amount of time spent referencing the author's first book incredibly distracting. I know it is a companion piece, but I felt like there was a consistent plug to the first book. That was a little problematic to me.

This book was an addendum to his previous book. It still had parts from his other book as well. He had added things from witnesses that had come forward after the book had been published. Also people who had forgot things.

I was in high school during Ted Bundy's rampage of terror. I had heard of him, but this was way past his reign. As I was reading this, I recall my years of naivety. I had no idea this was going on. However, I was living in Kentucky, so I suppose I was out of harm's way.

In reading the book, like I say, I was aware of his abducting females, but not aware of his viciousness and utter lack of remorse or of the number of women he killed. I found this book to be interesting and informative. While it was short, I think it was just the right number of pages as I wasn't looking to be inundated for Ted Bundy's complete history.

Thanks to Wild Blue Press for approving my request and to Net Galley for providing me with a free e-galley in exchange for an honest review.

I am a massive fan of true crime and Ted Bundy is one of the serial killers that fascinates me so I was really keen to get my hands on a copy of this book. I did enjoy this book and have added the first book that is referred too so often by the author to the top of my "to read" list as I imagine it contains quite a bit of the information that I felt was missing from this one as the follow up/sequel, that said I still enjoyed it very much and it deserves the 4 stars I have given it.

As much as I love true crime I've steered clear of reading any books on Ted Bundy previously as he never really interested me. However, Sullivan's book has totally changed my mind on one of the best known serial killers.
I loved the way Sullivan went through each and every murder and as someone who hasn't read a lot about Ted Bundy I learned so much.

An interesting read about the infamous Ted Bundy, insightful and intriguing taking a fresh look at a serial killer that still intrigue people today.

This book could've been so much better than what it was. The writing was decent enough, but I felt like the majority of this book ended up being the author constantly plugging his other book. It was a lot of "I covered this topic in my other book so I won't repeat it here" (not in those exact words but close enough). Seeing as I haven't read anything else by this author, I was totally clueless.

I might try to find the other book then come back to this one.

I enjoyed it! As someone who studied Criminology, I feel that this book can be an important reference to students

The Trail of Ted Bundy by Kevin Sullivan
I was given an ARC of this book by Netgalley and Wild Blue Press.

After previously reading Kevin Sullivan's book on Bundy titled The Bundy Murders: A Comprehensive History, I decided to check out his next book on Bundy, The Trail of Ted Bundy : Digging Up the Untold Stories. Whereas the first book is one that is a full biography on Ted Bundy that is good for a first time reader about Bundy, and enjoyable too for those of us who have been reading books on him for decades. This next book, Trail is a companion book, sharing stories from people who knew him during his active killing years, stories from friends of Bundy's, friends of his victims, detectives who spent so long hunting him, and the people who guarded him, all giving their personal take on the serial killer.

The book is about Sullivan retracing Bundy's trail from when he first started killing in Washington, taking photos of the various sites surrounding the killings, like the college campuses or other places where Bundy abducted the different women. There is new information from interviews Sullivan has done that tell more about the cases. He next followed the trail to Utah where Bundy moved after things got too hot in the Northwest with the cops. He shares some interesting stories from Mormon friends that Bundy took up with and spent time hanging out with, while he pretended to attend law school. More pictures of Bundy sites in Utah and Colorado. There are many references back to the first book, but lots of new from people remembering him. Then came his arrests and escapes, and following the trail to Florida where more women pay the price for Bundy's being allowed to escape, despite the jailers being warned.

I enjoyed Sullivan's telling about revising the different abduction sites and places Bundy lived and at times took the victims to, experiencing what it was like being there and thinking about what had happened so long ago. Several of the sites are no longer standing and more will be gone with the passing of time

I have always been interested in true crime, this book seemed right up my street! It did not disappoint in any way! I found myself picking it up and reading it at every opportunity. I now intend to purchase the first book by the author so job well done in my opinion

Good book. No matter what else you've read about this man you'll find this fascinating. Highly recommend.

I was really excited to read this book. However I was very disappointed because it mentioned about Mr Sullivans first book about 10000 times. I have unfortunately not read the first one and got rather irriated by the plugging of the other book. Many parts of the book were very interesting but I can't really see how any of the information was that new? to me it seemed like a big plug for his first book and all the new information could have been summed up in a paragraph rather than a book. I think I would have preferred reading about the author and their pursuit for information about Bundy, rather than this. A book in the life of this author would have been better.

https://premraostoryteller.com/2017/02/03/the-trail-of-ted-bundy-by-kevin-m-sullivan/

This book could have been a great book, one of the many true crime writers explaining how he researched his first book on Ted Bundy. The author giving us the insight into how Bundy lived, worked and functioned as a supposedly normal human being while going out and kidnapping and murdering multiple young women. The author also mentioned some updated information that wasn't in the first book. It was interesting to hear how things have and haven't changed in the various places Bundy lived, and what people have done to change the areas he abused and murdered his victims. While the book did some of that, most of it was the author plugging the first book he wrote on the subject. There was a lot of "I mentioned that in the other book I wrote so I won't repeat it here. If you want to know more refer to it." Since I hadn't read the first book and this book in no way stated it was a sequel or addendum to it, I was a bit let down since I had never really read anything about Ted Bundy prior. I know little about him as a serial killer other than he murdered multiple women in multiple states, I was still a teenager when he was executed, so my parents tried to keep the worst of what he did from me though I remember hearing his name mentioned on the news. If you have already read the first book, definitely get this one for the extra material. If you haven't read the first book I suggest giving this one a pass until you read it.

i've read many books about Ted Bundy but this one is by far the best, it has gone into far more detail then any of the others that i have read, you can tell there was a lot of research that has gone in to this book (Kevin Sullivan) has done a great job in writing this book giving the reader a great insight in to the mind of ted bundy and the people that knew him, it is a book that i could not but down and page after page i was gripped but to know this has all really happened was shocking, for me reading this book was like watching a movie .. (Kevin Sullivan) his hard work has paid off in this great book, i will be recommending this to many friends and anyone else that likes to read true crime,

I finished the book in 2 days which is a good indication that. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I liked the back stories and never before heard of comments from people that contacted the author after reading his initially book. This book (considered a companion volume) has definitely wet my appetite to read the authors first book on the Bundy murders. The one thing I could have done without is the numerous references to the first book The Bundy Murders. At one point I felt like saying 'We get it! You wrote another book!'

Ann Rules "Devil beside Me" has long been a favorite. Being from WA State it was the most accurate I'd found. This is just as good.