I'll Be Gone in the Dark

by Michelle McNamara

I love reading true crime, but I’ve always been aware of the fact that, as a reader, I am actively choosing to be a consumer of someone else’s tragedy.

Walking into the afterparty, Patton was introduced to the directors of Crank, an action movie he loves

At the rehearsal dinner, I seated small groups of people who didn’t know each other together; the only thing I told them was that they all had one thing in common and had to figure out what it was. At one table everyone had lived at some point in Minnesota. Another table was avid cooks.

“Make one move and you’ll be silent forever and I’ll be gone in the dark.”