I'll Be Gone In the Dark - Michelle McNamara

I guess if you turned this true crime book into a novel, you might walk away from it thinking it unbelievable at the scale of one mans crimes.  I had to give it 5 stars, as I have thought about it often since reading it, although I must say it is a pretty brutal and intense read.  For over 10 years in California there was a series of burglaries, rapes and then murders that terrorized many neighborhoods.  Still unsolved and unlinked until years later, modern forensic evidence and with the ability of teams of people looking over case notes, professionals and amateur sleuths were beginning to recognize the patterns and mo of the attacker.

The author Michelle McNamara ran her own true crime blog and the search for this Golden State Killer became one of her pet projects.  Speaking to many of the investigators and detectives involved in the case as well as victims, she pieces timelines and stories together, searching for clues and evidence using the internet.  Sadly she passed away,  before somebody was arrested for the crimes in 2018 which makes the story all the more intriguing.  5/5