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

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squishmore's review against another edition

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4.75

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squishmore's review against another edition

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dark medium-paced

4.75

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paris_nicole's review against another edition

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4.0

The story of True Crime writer, Michelle Manamara's, hunt for The Golden State Killer. The book was published posthumously, as the author died unexpectedly while the book was being written. She relentlessly pursued the GSK through web-sleuthing and eventually working alongside detectives. The book provides a lot of research and data on the GSK, while also avoiding the gratuitous details of some true crime stories. Overall, I enjoyed listening to the story. It's unfortunate that Michelle didn't live to see the outcome of her decade of work.

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swamprat410's review against another edition

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5.0

One of the best written books I've read in a long time. Michelle McNamara paints a picture and describes a scene so well, that you can close your eyes and picture it. For a while, I stopped reading the book when I was about 95% done because I didn't want it to end.

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5.0

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m4rtt4's review against another edition

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4.5

McNamara really was a talented writer! Too bad she never got to see the case solved, if someone deserved to know the solution it should've been her

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kaiyakaiyo's review against another edition

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1.0

did not like this! I can simultaneously think this woman was very intelligent, determined, did helpful things in the pursuit of deranged killers and rapists, and still think she is exactly the sort of icky true crime writer that drove me from this genre very early on.

she was self-aware about her fucked up motivations, I’ll give her that, but frankly she was still treating investigating serial murder and rape like a profitable pastime, and her ideas about using ancestry dot com for finding him (which ended up actually working, small kudos I guess) are frankly terrifying.

my problem with this relatively well written book is the same I have with all true crime swill: where do privacy and ethics come in when some entitled white lady with a laptop is sticking her nose into family traumas? haunting crime scenes? trying to force her way into private dna databases? suggesting things like “letting readers play detective” ? I said in my first update that I probs wouldn’t like this book, but I did give it an honest try for a few chapters. No dice, but my heart is with the authors family for her untimely passing

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hongstoes's review against another edition

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4.5

I absolutely loved this read and would recommend it to anyone interested in true crime or not. It is so immersive and well-written. My only complaint is that it gets a little slower toward the end of part 2, but I thoroughly enjoyed this read.

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beccaand's review against another edition

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4.0

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hidemybook's review against another edition

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3.5

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