I'll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara

I fell into this book. Into Michelle's mind. There is so much within these pages. The stories of women told by a women who gave everything she had to try and catch a rapist and a serial killer. Her voice is crystal clear and her writing is unflinching. Riveting. Alive. Read before you watch the TV series.

From the back

The masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer - the serial rapist turned murderer who terrorised California for over a decade - from the late Michelle McNamara.

I'll Be Gone in the Dark offers a unique snapshot of suburban West Coast America in the 1980s, and a chilling account of the wreckage left behind by a criminal mastermind. It is also a portrait of one woman's obsession and her unflagging pursuit of the truth, three decades later, in spite of the personal cost.

Updated with material which takes in the extraordinary events that followed its initial publication, Michelle McNamara's first and last book is a contemporary classic - humane, haunting and heroic.