Dollie's Reviews > Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer?

It’s been a long time since I read anything by Ann Rule. I’m so glad I was already married to a great guy before I ever started reading any of her books, otherwise, I would probably never trust a man enough to marry him. This one was the story of Bradley Morris Cunningham, a total scumbag if ever there was one. He treated all of his wives and children as though they were his property. I can remember dating guys (40+ years ago) who tried to tell me how I was supposed to act and what I could and could not say. Those guys didn’t last long. Brad Cunningham took total control of any woman he lived with. Smart women, but women who loved him so much that they supported him and his children, even though he belittled them, beat them and even one he killed. There’s not a man on earth who could have made me do some of the things this man made his wives do. Parts of this were hard for me to read as they brought back a lot of the emotional abuse my father heaped on my mother, my siblings and I, but I could not put this book down. Ann Rule writes the best true-crime novels I’ve ever read. I could not put it down. I even Googled him to be sure he's still in prison. He's 3,000 miles away, but that's not far enough.