A review by astonersbookshelf_
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
4.0
I want to start off with first by saying that I am usually not a nonfiction person, however I wanted to branch out and try something new. As someone who is very intrigued by serial killers, I decided to stick with that theme and do more reading on the Golden State Killer.
I think that one of the hardest things to know going through this book is that Michelle McNamara did not make it to the book release, which was in Feb 2018 and she ended up passing in 2016. Two months after release in 2018, the police had found and arrested the suspect which was 72 year old Joseph James DeAngelo. He was not only a police officer but a mechanic who terrorized so many people. It is so scary to think that monsters really do look just like you and I.
I am sad that we lost Michelle McNamara too soon and enjoyed the way that she told the story. I think that the way she told them helped me enjoy it more than the average nonfiction story. She wrote quite differently than I am used to and kept me interested when sometimes facts can get repetitive and boring.
I cannot imagine how difficult it was to being doing so much research on this and not having an answer. And though the police won’t admit it, I do believe that McNamara’s book helped catch the man. Though she may not have found ‘new’ evidence, she did bring attention back to the topic with her book.
I think that one of the hardest things to know going through this book is that Michelle McNamara did not make it to the book release, which was in Feb 2018 and she ended up passing in 2016. Two months after release in 2018, the police had found and arrested the suspect which was 72 year old Joseph James DeAngelo. He was not only a police officer but a mechanic who terrorized so many people. It is so scary to think that monsters really do look just like you and I.
I am sad that we lost Michelle McNamara too soon and enjoyed the way that she told the story. I think that the way she told them helped me enjoy it more than the average nonfiction story. She wrote quite differently than I am used to and kept me interested when sometimes facts can get repetitive and boring.
I cannot imagine how difficult it was to being doing so much research on this and not having an answer. And though the police won’t admit it, I do believe that McNamara’s book helped catch the man. Though she may not have found ‘new’ evidence, she did bring attention back to the topic with her book.