Cleaning up my drafts folder before the New Year, here are some posts I typed out but didn't post.
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I have been binging on true crime reading when I was not binging on streaming TV series. Between both types of binging, R&R was pretty much taken care of.
Michelle McNamara's "I Will Be Gone in The Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer" is an un-put-down-able book. She died trying to get a handle on her obsession before the book could be finished and published. It was later finished by two of her journalist-investigator friends. The difference between the earlier chapters of the book written by McNamara and the later ones cobbled together by 'non-writers' can be clearly felt.
Golden State Killer, a name given by McNamara to the serial rapist and killer who the law enforcement authorities had nicknamed EAR (East Area Rapist) was a notorious serial rapist/killer/vandal who terrorized Bay Area and Sacramento in the late 70s. Like some of the police officers and investigators involved in these case, McNamara spent years of her time investigating, analyzing, compiling and putting together an arresting narrative which brought public attention back to the case.
But she would be gone (died in April 2016 of an accidental prescription drug overdose couple with an un-diagnosed heart condition), before police would catch the Golden State Killer, almost three decades after his crime spree had ended - in April 2018.
Michelle McNamara's magnum opus truly deserves the best non-fiction nominations and awards it has garnered in 2018.
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