2019 Summer reading challenge: Good as gold: Read a book that won a Goodreads Choice Award. (2018)

I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I always forget how much I have a secret love of true crime books until I read another one. Especially serial killers. And this one was no exception.

I admit that I knew next to nothing about the Golden State Killer other than he was a serial killer. This book was a very interesting take on the usual True Crime genre because at the time, he had not been caught and this book is more about the author's almost obsession on following leads and helping to find him. I actually found myself feeling sad for the fact that the author died before knowing that the work she did helped police finally track a suspect down.

It is amazing how far forensic science has come in the last 40 years. I was alive when the GDK struck on a different coast, but I was too young to know and listening to the book I kept having to remind myself that this all happened before there was the technology to run genetic testing, profiling was not as strong as it is now, information is not as rapidly shared among jurisdictions.

If you are into True Crime/Serial Killers and/or Rapists, I highly recommend this book.



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