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

17 reviews

danimacuk's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Gun violence, Torture, Sexual assault, Rape, Blood, Murder, Sexual violence, Violence, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Stalking, Transphobia, Kidnapping, Alcoholism, Confinement, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, and Cursing

Minor: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Body shaming, Cancer, and Animal cruelty

laurs_lit_ledger's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Violence, Murder, and Rape

amisk23's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Kidnapping, and Rape

Moderate: Alcoholism

socialpsysteph's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

4.0

I was just scrolling through audiobooks on Libby and came across this one and knew I wanted to listen to it. I'm always interested in true crime and I knew Paul Holes had a huge role in the GSK case so I was interested to hear his story. This is a mix of true crime and memoir and I was fascinated by the inside look into the life of someone who works in this area where I once thought I would be working.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism

kaitlyncraig18's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Murder

Minor: Alcoholism and Drug abuse

stolenwater's review

dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

3.0

Starts off slow with a lot of exposition on Paul’s early life and career but picks up and becomes more engaging about halfway through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Sexual violence, Rape, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Sexual assault, and Murder

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Gun violence

Minor: Alcoholism

keelywmson's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Rape, Violence, Torture, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug abuse, and Mental illness

Minor: Pedophilia and Sexual harassment

thespinystacks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism and Violence

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative slow-paced

3.0

 This book is about Paul Holes' career as a forensic investigator. and how he helped catch the Golden State Killer. As well as his life, mostly the adult part during his career, and how it affected his life. 

The topic was interesting but the author's writing was a bit repetitive and I zoned out a lot while reading it. Part of that was my messed up sleep and part of it was the writing. It just seemed to drone on a lot. The author was a great narrator. He has a podcast I listen to, but I prefer his co-host's books to his. 

​I listen to a lot of true crime podcasts and at least one true crime book a month, so it's not a new type of content for me. Though I don't read many memoirs, so maybe that's what I didn't like about it. ​ 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Violence, Murder, Death, Gun violence, Rape, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Child death, Stalking, Sexual violence, and Trafficking

Moderate: Pedophilia

Minor: Domestic abuse and Drug abuse

elisabethshelby's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

This book is the perfect read for anyone who loves Dateline or solving cold cases.  Paul takes the reader behind the scenes to really understand what goes on when law enforcement reviews old cold cases.  The details are specific, and sometimes even reading what goes on can be a bit jarring to realize.  Hey, let's look at this face covered in maggots to try to determine a time of death.  Oh....ok.

Paul's book mostly looks at his career-long hunt for the Golden State Killer, and his work towards finally tracking down the correct person.  Between his hunt, he looks at other memorable cases he helped with, including Jaycee Duggard, Laci and Connor Petersen, and more.  The stories are well told, and only in a handful of places does the narrative seem to slow down a little too much.  For the most part, this is a well written story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual violence, Stalking, Torture, Death, Drug abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, Alcoholism, Kidnapping, Violence, Murder, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, and Child death