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

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The haunting true story of the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade—and of the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case.

Introduction by Gillian Flynn • Afterword by Patton Oswalt

“A brilliant genre-buster.... Propulsive, can’t-stop-now reading.”   —Stephen King.

For quite 10 years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, wherever he perpetrated 10 sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, elusion capture by multiple police forces and a few of the simplest detectives within the space.

Three decades later, Michelle McNamara, a real crime journalist United Nations agency created the popular web site TrueCrimeDiary.com, make up my mind to search out the violent neurotic she referred to as "the Calif. Killer." Michelle pored over police reports, interviewed victims, and embedded herself within the on-line communities that were as addicted to the case as she was.

I’ll Be Gone within the Dark—the masterpiece McNamara was writing at the time of her fast death—offers AN atmospherical photo of a flash in yankee history and a chilling account of a criminal mastermind and also the part he left behind. it's conjointly a portrait of a woman’s obsession and her unflagging pursuit of the reality. totally original and compelling, it's destined to become a real crime classic—and might ultimately unmask the Calif. Killer.

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