Take a photo of a barcode or cover
justalillost 's review for:
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
by Michelle McNamara
Originally posted on Just a Lil' Lost
This book is about Michelle McNamara’s obsessive hunt for the Golden State Killer, a predator that terrorized residents in California for over a decade. In this book, she examines in great detail each of the crime scenes, explores all possible theories and connects with like-minded individuals equally obsessed with finding the killer after all these years. Perhaps with the renewed interest in this case and the ideas she posits in her research, but shortly after this book was published police actually caught the Golden State Killer after he had eluded authorities for so many decades. Unfortunately McNamara passed away while in the midst of writing this book and never got to see her hard work pay off with the arrest.
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark is a fascinating account of what went on in the 70’s and 80’s in California. While some true-crime books can feel like they are bogged down in nothing but facts and stats, McNamara has a way of shaping a narrative that shares all those facts and stats but still keeping the underlying story there and therefore keeping readers engaged. Reading how deep she got into the research, I can see how the elusive criminal would have kept her and others awake trying to solve the mystery. The one word I keep using for this book is fascinating. Not only the level of detail that someone who wasn’t directly connected to the case in a police or detective capacity as able to glean but the fact that they caught the guy! Seriously. Fascinating.
This book is about Michelle McNamara’s obsessive hunt for the Golden State Killer, a predator that terrorized residents in California for over a decade. In this book, she examines in great detail each of the crime scenes, explores all possible theories and connects with like-minded individuals equally obsessed with finding the killer after all these years. Perhaps with the renewed interest in this case and the ideas she posits in her research, but shortly after this book was published police actually caught the Golden State Killer after he had eluded authorities for so many decades. Unfortunately McNamara passed away while in the midst of writing this book and never got to see her hard work pay off with the arrest.
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark is a fascinating account of what went on in the 70’s and 80’s in California. While some true-crime books can feel like they are bogged down in nothing but facts and stats, McNamara has a way of shaping a narrative that shares all those facts and stats but still keeping the underlying story there and therefore keeping readers engaged. Reading how deep she got into the research, I can see how the elusive criminal would have kept her and others awake trying to solve the mystery. The one word I keep using for this book is fascinating. Not only the level of detail that someone who wasn’t directly connected to the case in a police or detective capacity as able to glean but the fact that they caught the guy! Seriously. Fascinating.