Hello friends, happy Wednesday, I hope you’re all doing well! Today I’m posting my review of Michelle McNamara’s book, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark.

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by: Michelle McNamara: This was, as the front of the book states, one woman’s obsessive search for, who she deemed, the Golden State Killer. This took a deep dive into all the research that McNamara had done on trying to find this killer and serial rapist. Unfortunately, McNamara passed away before this book could be completed and the mystery solved, so this left this reader feeling really sad about that. After all the work that we could see went into this, the reader felt the heart and soul McNamara put into this, it came through loud and strong in her writing, it’s really terrible and a little heartbreaking she didn’t get to see this all through. After doing a little research of their own, this reader has since found out that in 2020 they were able to catch the killer/rapist. This book dealt with some really hard topics and McNamara never shied away from it, but she was able to soften things with her beautiful writing; it really let the reader ease into all of this heavy stuff without feeling overwhelmed. The fact that she let the reader into her own life and how she got into loving true crime and wanting to find the justice in the world was also really well incorporated into all the hard facts and figures, and helped soften this book, too. There were quite a few of her chapters that had to be pieced together by her editors and at times that kinda left this choppy to read. We could tell the editors did a good job of trying to place everything together for McNamara, but it just didn’t read as smoothly as some of her chapters that she was able to put together herself. That to say though, this was still a really fascinating read, especially coming from someone who doesn’t read the true crime genre, this was done in a way that was easily accessible to outside readers. Overall, a well worth and captivating read.