Invisible Darkness: The Horrifying Case of Paul Bernardo and Karla Holmolka in Obsessed with True Crime

Nov 01, 2007 Laura rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: truecrime

This book is really infuriating, actually, because Homolka, who was probably more culpable than Bernardo and should have spent the rest of her life in a supermax (uh, hello, she helped rape and kill her own sister!), got away with a relative slap on the wrist because the authorities were too goddamn stupid to believe that a woman could be anything but a poor innocent abused victim of a man. Last I looked, she was out of prison, remarried, with a kid of her own. That should scare the hell out of ...more

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Mar 26, 2008 Delilah rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: true-crime

It is very difficult to write a true crime novel in this day and age without having it be sensationalist, and I won't go so far as to say that Williams has achieved Helter Skelter levels of journalistic integrity with Invisible Darkness, but the fact of the matter is that for true crime, this is a well-written piece. The case itself is fascinating from the get-go, and the author pulls no punches as he narrates the compelling depravity from as far back as he could reach. I've read hundreds of boo ...more

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Dec 09, 2015 Jennie rated it liked it

Shelves: true-crime, serial-killer, sociopaths-psycopaths, canada

These two are just icky.

So, this is an icky tale of two unlikable people who get together and become raping murderers. And Bernardo wanted to be just like Vanilla Ice...a rap super star. From Canada. And as for her, don't expect to see her as more than an incredibly, unbelievably lucky woman who listened at the right time and worked every situation that came her way to perfection. She had a lot of help because this is also a story about a botched investigation. Otherwise, I think she didn't know ...more

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