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

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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.