Reviews - Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America's Most Elusive Serial Killer Revealed

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Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America's Most Elusive Serial Killer Revealed

Zodiac Unmasked was a bit harder to finish than Graysmith's first book on the Zodiac. But nevertheless, nearly equally as enjoyable. Zodiac Unmasked is a great addition and in many ways conclusion to the Zodiac case, and if what Graysmith says is undeniably true in his book, then I think we know who the Zodiac Killer was. Factual or not, both Zodiac and Zodiac Unmasked are must-reads for any fanatic.

dumblcnde's review against another edition

4.0

dark

bclark8781's review against another edition

4.0

Well this is an unbelievably thorough (500 plus pages with very detailed appendices) book. Graysmith is (and has been for 40+ years) probably the world's leading expert on the Zodiac case, and this book collects all the information from, among other places, the various police jurisdictions involved in the murders. He spills the beans early on that he feels pretty darn sure that Arthur Leigh Allen, who died in 1992, was Zodiac. If you're a true crime aficionado AND you're old enough to remember this (or you've seen David Fincher's terrific 2007 movie) AND you've got time on your hands - go for it! I certainly enjoyed the book and admire Graysmith's scholarship, but I wasn't sorry when I finished.

subbasegirl's review against another edition

2.0

Full of amazing detail and personal recollections. However all of that is lost in the incredibly disorganized style. The book reads like it was originally pages of notes recounting pieces of the puzzle that were tossed up in the air and then recorded in whatever order they fell.

nixbix_reads's review against another edition

2.0

There’s no denying that Robert Graysmith is the expert on The Zodiac Killer, but this was such a hard slog to get through. I felt that this book was far longer than it needed to be - it feels like much of the information is repeated from his previous book supplemented by padding. If it had been edited better, I feel that it would have been a more interesting read. There is a lot of repetition within the book, and conversations are repeated verbatim, which, for me, quickly became boring. The section on the shooting of the Zodiac movie also appears to mostly to be a word for word account of Graysmith’s involvement in the project - this turned something that could have been really interesting into something as dull as dishwater.

Overall, the information & theories were interesting but the delivery let them down.