A review by weird_but_fucking_beautiful
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

3.5

I appreciate Michelle’s persistence and dogged determination that she devoted in her later life in the pursuit and capture of the man she dubbed the Golden State Killer. The beginning of this book reads like a novel, it is both engrossing and chilling. It is as it gets pieced together by others through her case notes that it loses its grip and became a dry textbook narrative.  I mean no detriment to the wonderful folks who stepped in on Michelle’s behalf to finish this book. It just shows what an amazing talent she had for story telling and what a lasting gift Michelle gave the world through her writing. I am a huge proponent for “ the book is always better”, but in this case I enjoyed the HBO series far more. 
 
I’d like to express my deepest condolences to the McNamara/Oswalt families. Michelle would’ve been beyond thrilled to see that the jaws of justice finally snapped shut around the neck of GSK’s reign of terror and anonymity… 
somehow though I think she already knows. 
Rest easy gentle and sweet lady.
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