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One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

This is the heartfelt true crime account that reads like a thriller, critically acclaimed by the likes of Gillian Flynn and Stephen King. Author Michelle McNamara, who passed away before the book was published, also won the respect of a very different audience: the investigators who retired with the unsolved case still haunting them, the victims’ friends and families, the online community of amateur detectives she founded. Michelle’s tireless research, and the brilliant book it eventually became, blazed a unique trail, and that actually helped capture the killer https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-22/the-forty-year-hunt-f…

Publisher's Summary
Short-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize 2018

A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer - the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorised California for over a decade - from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case.

'You'll be silent forever, and I'll be gone in the dark.'

For more than 10 years, a mysterious and violent predator committed 50 sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated 10 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 True Crime Diary, 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.

Framed by an introduction by Gillian Flynn and an afterword by her husband, Patton Oswalt, the book was completed by Michelle's lead researcher and a close colleague. Utterly original and compelling, it is destined to become a true crime classic - and may at last unmask the Golden State Killer.