I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden… (urspr publ 2018; utgåvan 2019)

I am a My Favorite Murder Murderino -- I have known about this book since it came out, at least, and have heard Georgia talk about it repeatedly. It's been on my "To be read/listened to" list but I never made it a high priority. When it popped up through my library as available as an audiobook, I immediately jumped at the chance to listen to it -- about time, right?

I was *really* surprised how much (everything) I didn't know about this serial rapist/killer and, basically, *everything* about the cases and the man. I'm almost hesitant to tell you what I didn't know in case you think it's a cut and dry case (as I feel it has been presented) because I don't want to ruin the shocks for you that I had hearing about some of the details.

I am so glad I finally got around to listening to this!

Adrianne ( )

I haven't felt like reading something like this in a long time. But I had heard that the case was solved recently and it seemed like it would be fun to read an unsolved mystery book knowing that after I was done I could google the ending.

I mostly found this very readable and page turning. For whatever reason - right now - I didn't find that it scared me too much to sleep or anything like that. It must have been so tough living in those places while this was all happening. I don't think I would have ever slept.

The chapters have different feels since they were in different stages of being written when McNamara died. The ones fully accredited to her did read the best to me.

One thing that was really terrible is that in the e-book copy I read - there were a lot of pictures at the end that were NOT keyed in to the reading - so I had no idea they existed. They would have been really great to look at as the book progressed and that is a pretty huge oversight on the part of the e-book publisher.

The chapters that were not fully authored or finished by McNamara drag a little. I also think there was a point that it felt like a stronger editoral hand would have been appreciated to organize better - sometimes people are called their first name - sometimes their last - that kind of thing that would be okay in some books - but there are like 100 people mentioned in this book and it gets unwieldy.

Anyway - very interesting. I am really relieved they caught this guy. DNA is such a powerful thing. ( )

I think true crime just isn't my thing. I had to push to finish this. ( )

Were in just a recounting of a dogged investigation I'd have given it 4 stars for how thorough and dogged it was. Given that the late Michelle McNamara could put a narrative together, knew when to press the gas pedal of a story and when to let up, knew that emotions should be deployed to support a narrative rather than shout over it makes this a brilliant, sad, unforgettable and important book. ( )

Audiobook narrator: excellent

What a great read, flows well even though the original author diedbefore completing. I'm glad they took on the project. So sad that Michelle died before they caught him. Highly recommend if you aren't squeamish about murder details (yeah, there are a bunch! ) ( )