A review by tirwinreads17
Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases by Paul Holes

3.0

Sorry guys, it’s unpopular opinion time! I’m a federal criminal prosecutor who loves true crime content. I was thrilled to receive this arc and had extremely high hopes. I just watched a documentary on Nightstalker prior to reading so I was amped up with the serial killer theme and ready to dive in. However, the execution just didn’t hit the mark for me. First what I didn’t enjoy about this book was that there were a lot of dead ends, just recaps of gruesome and serious cases and no end result - not exactly in line with the theme of “solving cold cases.” I also did not enjoy the sort of style/tone/demeanor the book was written in. It just read to me like a long-winded apology and explanation piece to his first wife and everyone in his life that he put second after his job. By all means, if someone wants to spin their own memoir/biography in this way, they absolutely can. It just wasn’t the exhilarating story of cracking cold cases and bringing overdue justice to grieving families I thought I was signing up for, more of a negative and depressing vibe like his life was wasted away to catch GSK and he’s sorry but also not sorry.