I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

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.

Every obsession needs a room of its own.

It’s a tiny minority of criminals, maybe 5 percent, who present the biggest challenge—the ones whose crimes reveal preplanning and unremorseful rage.

We swim or sink against our deficits in life,

I need to see his face. He loses his power when we know his face.

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