Ted Bundy: An Analysis of the Face of Evil by Max Goldman — Now Available

A young, well-mannered man crosses a sunlit beach with his arm in a sling and asks for help carrying a sailboat. There is nothing sinister about the scene—and that is precisely its purest form of horror.

Lefortune Announces a New True-Crime Release

Lefortune Publishing announces the release of Ted Bundy: An Analysis of the Face of Evil by Max Goldman, a work that approaches one of the most examined criminal cases in American history without surrendering it to spectacle.

Goldman does not write an encyclopedia of a killer. He writes the hours: the early morning when Lynda Ann Healy was no longer in her room; midday at Lake Sammamish, when two women disappeared in broad daylight; the seconds of lucid panic in which Carol DaRonch refused to remain polite and survived.

Around those scenes, the book unfolds the investigative apparatus required to understand them—criminology, forensic psychiatry, and a psychoanalytic reading of the subject—while refusing to let any theory become an alibi for the mythology surrounding Bundy.

The Horror of the Ordinary

The unsettling force of the case lies not only in violence, but in normality: courtesy, familiarity, charm, daylight, ordinary spaces. Ted Bundy: An Analysis of the Face of Evil examines how those ordinary conditions could be manipulated and turned into instruments of control.

This is not a book designed to celebrate the figure of an exceptional monster. It is a study of the mechanisms that made his crimes possible, the investigative failures and breakthroughs surrounding them, and the psychological and social conditions through which predation could remain hidden behind an apparently recognizable face.

Restoring the Victims to the Center

At the center of Goldman’s approach is a deliberate refusal to let the killer absorb the entire narrative. The victims—their names, interrupted lives, choices, vulnerability, and resistance—remain part of the history rather than becoming footnotes to it.

The result combines the narrative pressure of true crime with the responsibility of investigative nonfiction: a book meant not to comfort, romanticize, or sensationalize, but to examine, reconstruct, and remember.

About Max Goldman

Max Goldman writes investigative true crime focused on criminal behavior, psychological analysis, evidence, and the human realities that remain after a case becomes public mythology.

Ted Bundy: An Analysis of the Face of Evil is now released by Lefortune Publishing.