melxody's review against another edition
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
donnerbella's review
5.0
The Book is only part of the story.
Am Anfang steht ein nie gestellter Verbrecher und eine Frau, die ihm auf die Schliche kommen will.
Am Ende ist da nicht nur ein Buch, ihr Vermächtnis, sondern auch endlich ein Täter.
Michelle McNamara hat nicht einfach nur den Golden State Killer dokumentiert, sondern seine Ära, seine Opfer und vor allem die, die nie aufgehört haben ihn zu jagen. Ihr Blick fürs Detail, ihre obsessive Suche war am Ende so intensiv, dass sich nach ihrem Tod nicht die Frage stellt, ob dieses Buch fertiggestellt werden würde sondern nur wie.
I'll be gone in the dark wäre immer ein außergewöhnliches, fesselndes und gerade für den non-fiction Bereich hervorragend geschriebenes Buch geworden - denn McNamara schreibt über Fakten und Daten wie andere über Charaktere. Sie gibt ihnen eine Position in der Geschichte, füllt sie mit Hintergrund und Leben.
Wenn man das Buch schließt, stellt man sich nicht vor, wie viele Ermittler diese Akte endlich schließen können - man kommt nicht umhin sich zu fragen was Michelle als nächstes beschäftigt, was sie geschrieben hätte. Sie wird fehlen, aber ihr Buch wird niemand der es gelesen hat vergessen.
Am Anfang steht ein nie gestellter Verbrecher und eine Frau, die ihm auf die Schliche kommen will.
Am Ende ist da nicht nur ein Buch, ihr Vermächtnis, sondern auch endlich ein Täter.
Michelle McNamara hat nicht einfach nur den Golden State Killer dokumentiert, sondern seine Ära, seine Opfer und vor allem die, die nie aufgehört haben ihn zu jagen. Ihr Blick fürs Detail, ihre obsessive Suche war am Ende so intensiv, dass sich nach ihrem Tod nicht die Frage stellt, ob dieses Buch fertiggestellt werden würde sondern nur wie.
I'll be gone in the dark wäre immer ein außergewöhnliches, fesselndes und gerade für den non-fiction Bereich hervorragend geschriebenes Buch geworden - denn McNamara schreibt über Fakten und Daten wie andere über Charaktere. Sie gibt ihnen eine Position in der Geschichte, füllt sie mit Hintergrund und Leben.
Wenn man das Buch schließt, stellt man sich nicht vor, wie viele Ermittler diese Akte endlich schließen können - man kommt nicht umhin sich zu fragen was Michelle als nächstes beschäftigt, was sie geschrieben hätte. Sie wird fehlen, aber ihr Buch wird niemand der es gelesen hat vergessen.
waxingquixotic's review
4.0
Quick confession here: I, uh, didn’t know anything about this stuff. I remember hearing about the recent discovery of who this guy is on the news, but I didn’t know who he was or how he terrorized California decades ago. I completely missed this somehow, and I like to consider myself to be a pretty informed dude out there bumbling around with knowledge of current and past events about things.
But this was all new for me. I’ve read a few true crime books in my day, most recently In Cold Blood. I’ve listened to a few podcasts here and there, and I’ve dabbled in a little bit of what Netflix has been dishing out over the past few years. I would t say I’m a true crime fan, but I get into this genre every now and then, and here I find myself in it again, accidentally.
This is true crime, but it bends the genre a bit in mixes in some biographical and autobiographical events from the author and her peers. It seamlessly slips between decades shining a light on the murderer, his victims, their families, and McNamara herself. One chapter would jump back in time and describe a horrific event in a Northern California suburb, and the next chapter would fly into the 2010s and tap into life in Hollywood and the author’s obsession with this case.
And the whole thing was pieced together brilliantly from her own writing of the book, to excerpts from previous writing for local magazines, to others pulling together paragraphs from her own notes. Gillian Flynn kicks the whole thing off, and Patton closes it all out. I really found myself mesmerized by the whole thing- an awful time in history that I didn’t know about and the life of a true crime blogger married to an actor doing all she could to crack the case.
I think this should and deserves to go down with some of the classics in the genre. I’m no expert in this area, but her attention to detail and writing style really got me caught up in this thing. At times I felt like I was sitting there with her listening to her journey through this whole mess. She writes in a very descriptive yet conversational tone that I found very engaging, and the short chapters that bounce around past and present really made the whole thing fly by quickly.
If you’re a true crime fan, you’ve probably read this already. If not, pick this one up. Now I have to find out how they found the guy. I know, I know... I am so far behind. I should really watch the news sometime, or read a newspaper or something.
But this was all new for me. I’ve read a few true crime books in my day, most recently In Cold Blood. I’ve listened to a few podcasts here and there, and I’ve dabbled in a little bit of what Netflix has been dishing out over the past few years. I would t say I’m a true crime fan, but I get into this genre every now and then, and here I find myself in it again, accidentally.
This is true crime, but it bends the genre a bit in mixes in some biographical and autobiographical events from the author and her peers. It seamlessly slips between decades shining a light on the murderer, his victims, their families, and McNamara herself. One chapter would jump back in time and describe a horrific event in a Northern California suburb, and the next chapter would fly into the 2010s and tap into life in Hollywood and the author’s obsession with this case.
And the whole thing was pieced together brilliantly from her own writing of the book, to excerpts from previous writing for local magazines, to others pulling together paragraphs from her own notes. Gillian Flynn kicks the whole thing off, and Patton closes it all out. I really found myself mesmerized by the whole thing- an awful time in history that I didn’t know about and the life of a true crime blogger married to an actor doing all she could to crack the case.
I think this should and deserves to go down with some of the classics in the genre. I’m no expert in this area, but her attention to detail and writing style really got me caught up in this thing. At times I felt like I was sitting there with her listening to her journey through this whole mess. She writes in a very descriptive yet conversational tone that I found very engaging, and the short chapters that bounce around past and present really made the whole thing fly by quickly.
If you’re a true crime fan, you’ve probably read this already. If not, pick this one up. Now I have to find out how they found the guy. I know, I know... I am so far behind. I should really watch the news sometime, or read a newspaper or something.
roksyreads's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
sad
tense
5.0
This is the first true crime story I've ever read in full. In fact, I believe it is actually the first I've ever read, and I could hardly put it down. This is an intense and chilling read, and I am glad to know that the perpetrator has been arrested in the time since McNamara's account was published - just this year, in 2020. I hope that if there is some sort of afterlife, that Michelle knows how much of an impact her work had, and that the man she so doggedly pursued will never hurt anyone ever again.
hamohero's review against another edition
I was listening to it as I was falling asleep and it got a little too spooky for me lol so I had to stop, I might pick it back up again as a physical book.
alittleoverdue's review
5.0
Wow, this was a page-turner. Couldn't stop reading it. I'd refrained from reading news coverage about the subsequent capture of the Golden State Killer until I read this book. What I hadn't expected was such an amazingly well-written story. Despite a near-obsessive attention to detail and tons of information contained in the book, McNamara does a masterful job of crafting a story that draws you in and keeps your interest throughout. I found myself thinking more than once what a loss it is to not have this writer any more - her talent as a writer and indeed, detective, is evident from the pages of this book. It'll be fascinating as more about the case is revealed to see what hunches Michelle had right.