Literary Fiction

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

by Michelle McNamara

For more than ten years, a mysterious predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south to perpetrate ten sadistic murders. McNamara's obsessive investigation into the Golden State Killer combines true crime reporting with memoir, chronicling her relentless pursuit of a ghost. A haunting testament to one woman's determination and the long shadow cast by unsolved violence.

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