I first heard about the man now known as the Golden State Killer back when I first read about Richard Ramirez. A throwaway line about someone else, known as the Original Night Stalker (ONS), who remained uncaught captured my interest and sent me down an internet rabbit hole as I started to discover the horror of the East Area Rapist/ONS, a home invader and serial rapist and murderer who terrorised Sacramento and the wider California area through the seventies and eighties. I soon shied away […]
We learn his banal secrets. We watch as he’s led, shackled and sweaty, into a brightly lit courtroom as someone seated several feet higher peers down unsmiling, raps a gavel, and speaks, at long last, every syllable of his birth name.
This is both a strange book and a strange book to read at this given moment. It’s clear that there will be a rushed second edition with additional updates, and I bet that book will be a more satisfying read. I should start off that this is one of those books that I worry that my reading it will make the internet mad at me. This book is very interesting, and mostly doesn’t hold together. When a fiction author dies, and they leave an unfinished […]
“I am actively choosing to be a consumer of someone else’s tragedy. So like any responsible consumer, I try to be careful in the choices I make. I read only the best: writers who are dogged, insightful, and humane.”
I was floored by this book. I’m glad that I was able to sit and read it over the course of one day, to really sink into it and give it my full attention. Yesterday my region was hit by our fourth nor’easter of the month (seriously, I’m ready for second winter and March to find the exit) and since my job often makes us come into work in terrible weather conditions, and I live in a pretty inaccessible place, I spend most snow days […]
Thoughtful, well-written, and well researched, but may be unfulfilling for many
Believe it or not, I haven’t disappeared. This is actually my fifteenth book this year, but the ten unreviewed books are part of a series that I’ll probably be reading for the rest of the year. But I needed a break, so I jumped on this. I picked up I’ll Be Gone in the Dark having no knowledge of who the writer was, or the specifics around the case. In fact, it wasn’t until about halfway through the book that I even realized this was […]