Books with author Michelle McNamara

Soon to be an HBO® Documentary SeriesAn Audiofile Best Audio Book of 2018An Audible Best Audio Book of 2018#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The haunting true story of the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade and of the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case.Introduction by Gillian Flynn Afterword by Patton Oswalt A brilliant genre-buster.... Propulsive, can t-stop-now reading. Stephen KingFor 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 is destined to become a true crime classic and may at last unmask the Golden State Killer.

Soon to be an HBO® Documentary SeriesAn Audiofile Best Audio Book of 2018An Audible Best Audio Book of 2018#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The haunting true story of the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade and of the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case.Introduction by Gillian Flynn Afterword by Patton Oswalt A brilliant genre-buster.... Propulsive, can t-stop-now reading. Stephen KingFor 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 is destined to become a true crime classic and may at last unmask the Golden State Killer.

Cecilia has always been secure in her world. A high school cheerleader, she is pretty and popular. And she dates Ryan, one of the cutest boys in her school. She leads a charmed and pampered life. Clearly everyone forgot the warnings buried deep in the quatrains of Nostradamus-- the end of days. When the world they know is destroyed, will their struggle to survive destroy their love? This new normal-- this new life-- is cruel and unpredictable and tests both of them in ways that they've never imagined. But it's not the end, only the beginning, but the beginning of what? In the end, we agreed that we would be heading north toward LoDo: the Lower Downtown Historic District. Cecilia and I had arrived at the shelter from the south, so I had no idea what to expect in LoDo. But by traveling this way, we would pass by some of the richer suburbs, like Cherry Hills Village. The weather had been pretty good, but it was still the middle of the winter on the Front Range.

In the end, we agreed that we would be heading north toward LoDo: the Lower Downtown Historic District. Cecilia and I had arrived at the shelter from the south, so I had no idea what to expect in LoDo. But by traveling this way, we would pass by some of the richer suburbs, like Cherry Hills Village. The weather had been pretty good, but it was still the middle of the winter on the Front Range.