A review by desertlounger
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade by Walter Kirn

5.0

'Blood Will Out' is two books in one. The first few chapters essentially stand on their own as a darkly humorous tale of the author, a journalist living on a ranch in Montana, covering the meth-addled depressed towns in the area, who strangely winds up transporting a paralyzed dog across the country for its new owner in Manhattan. Then the book switches gears and becomes a true-crime drama and the author reveals and explores how he became friends with someone (the dog owner) who, unbeknownst to him, was a murderer. The prose in the first part is sterling, crisp, some of the best I've ever read. It becomes considerably more matter-of-fact, though no less compelling, in telling the story of the bizarre psychopath who fooled so many people so easily.