Rent I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

Synopsis

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •  SCIBA Book Award Winner • A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018 • A Washington Post Notable Book of 2018 • A Philadelphia Inquirer Best Book of 2018 • A Slate Best Book of 2018 • A Kirkus Best Book of 2018 • An Audiofile Best Audiobook of 2018 • A Hudson Booksellers Best Book of 2018 • A New York Public Library Best Book of 2018 • A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2018 • Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence • A Library Journal Best Book of 2018 • A Goodreads Best Book of 2018

The haunting true story of the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California during the 70s and 80s, and of the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case—which was solved in April 2018.

Introduction by Gillian Flynn • Afterword by Patton Oswalt

"A brilliant genre-buster.... Propulsive, can't-stop-now reading."   —Stephen King

For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area.

Three decades later, Michelle McNamara, a true crime journalist who created the popular website TrueCrimeDiary.com, was determined to find the violent psychopath she called "the Golden State Killer." Michelle pored over police reports, interviewed victims, and embedded herself in the online communities that were as obsessed with the case as she was.

I'll Be Gone in the Dark—the masterpiece McNamara was writing at the time of her sudden death—offers an atmospheric snapshot of a moment in American history and a chilling account of a criminal mastermind and the wreckage he left behind. It is also a portrait of a woman's obsession and her unflagging pursuit of the truth. Utterly original and compelling, it has been hailed as a modern true crime classic—one which fulfilled Michelle's dream: helping unmask the Golden State Killer.

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