I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamaraMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
I love my true crime documentaries. I can sit and watch doc and doc on Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jim Jones, etc., and not get scared to death. I love horror films and nothing is scarier than true horror. However, finally listening to Michelle McNamara's piece on the Golden State Killer, I've realized that I'm not interested in true crime in the written word. Or perhaps, this book in particular didn't spark my interest. I think that if I saw this content in a visual context (luckily HBO is working on a docu-series on the GSK), I might be more interested. What McNamara has done with this work is lay out years and years of intense research in the hunt to identify the man who raped and murdered too many people in the late seventies-early eighties. I respect her diligence in reaching out to a multitude of research points. In her full credit, this book was published after her passing, so she is not responsible for the final layout of the book itself. I felt overwhelmed with the data and I couldn't follow the narrative. This audiobook version included an appendix featuring an article published after McNamara's passing and after the first printing of her book. Overall, I see where the appeal could be with this book, but just did not appeal to me.
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