I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

★★☆☆☆

Sep 28

Written By Muhan Zhang

By Michelle McNamara

Publication Year: 2018

Type: Non-fiction

Genre: true crime,

Read on 2018-09-28

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★★☆☆☆

Good but incomplete book. I almost stopped reading around the halfway point because of the subject matter - I don’t think true crime is for me. I couldn’t read this before bed and kept getting creeped out on my walk from the subway station to my apartment after reading on my commute. McNamara tragically died in the process of writing, but her final letter to “the responsible” is chilling. If he’s out there, still alive, I hope he reads it. I hope it strikes fear into his heart, inasmuch as he has terrorized not just his victims but entire communities for decades.

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