Michelle McNamara

I'll Be Gone in the Dark

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Winner of the Goodreads Choice Awards for Nonfiction | SCIBA Book Award Winner | Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence

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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393 printed pages
Publication year
2018
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  • Ixchi the killershared an impression4 years ago
    👍Worth reading

    Me gusta cuando hablan de cómo investigan y van desarrollando sus propios métodos para encontrar resultados, de las obsesiones y de cómo te transforman. La parte donde habla de las Domingo me conmovió bastante.

  • Мариshared an impression6 years ago
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    💡Learnt A Lot
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    🚀Unputdownable

    Amazingly written! Beautiful style and gripping narrative. Absolutely recommend!!!

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Quotes

  • Hei Reehas quoted3 years ago
    I was still the girl in the back of the classroom, watchful, never watched.
  • Hei Reehas quoted3 years ago
    love reading true crime, but I’ve always been aware of the fact that, as a reader, 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.
  • Ixchi the killerhas quoted4 years ago
    She was both proud of the fact that she had raised a strong-minded daughter and resentful of my sharp opinions.

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