Happy Tuesday!
Today I am linking up with Vicki @ I’d Rather Be At The Beach who hosts a meme every Tuesday to share the First Chapter/First Paragraph or two of the book you are currently reading.
I’m also once again joining The Purple Booker with Teaser Tuesday. It’s easy to join – just grab your current read, open it to a random page, and share two teaser sentences being careful not to include any spoilers.
*Look for my review of this book later his week!
First Chapter/First Paragraph
Prologue
That summer I hunted the serial killer at night form my daughter’s playroom. For the most part I mimicked the bedtime routine of a normal person. Teeth brushed. Pajamas on. But after my husband and daughter fell asleep, I’d retreat to my makeshift workspace and boot up my laptop, that fifteen-inch-wide hatch of endless possibilities. Our neighborhood northwest of downtown Los Angeles is remarkably quiet at night. Sometimes the only sound was the click as I tapped ever closer down the driveways of men I didn’t know using Google Street View. I rarely moved but I leaped decades with a few keystrokes. Yearbooks. Marriage certificates. Mug shots. I scoured thousands of pages of 1970s-era police files. I pored over autopsy reports. That I should do this surrounded by a half-dozen stuffed animals and a set of miniature pink bongos didn’t strike me as unusual. I’d found my searching place, as private as a rat’s maze. Every obsession needs a room of its own. Mine was strewn with coloring paper on which I’d scribbled down California penal codes in crayon.
Teaser Tuesday
The truth, of course, was much weirder: I was foregoing a fancy Hollywood party to return not to my sleeping infant but my laptop, to excavate through the night in search of information about a man I’d never met, who’d murdered people I didn’t know.
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
Goodreads Synopsis
For 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.
At the time of the crimes, the Golden State Killer was between the ages of eighteen and thirty, Caucasian, and athletic—capable of vaulting tall fences. He always wore a mask. After choosing a victim—he favored suburban couples—he often entered their home when no one was there, studying family pictures, mastering the layout. He attacked while they slept, using a flashlight to awaken and blind them. Though they could not recognize him, his victims recalled his voice: a guttural whisper through clenched teeth, abrupt and threatening.
Book Details:
Genre: True Crime
Series: None
Publisher: Harper
Publication Date: 2/27/2018
Pages: 328 (Hardback)
I can’t wait to read this book! I have it on “hold” through the Library Overdrive system, but it’s going to be a while. Thanks for sharing…and I might have to buy it!
Here’s mine: “LEFT: A LOVE STORY”
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I ended up buying it. I didn’t want to wait lol
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I’m really looking forward to reading this one, Tina! Great teaser!
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I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
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True Crime is not my preferred genre, but I was tempted by this book on audio.
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I’ve heard good things about the audio version. It isn’t my preferred genre either, but I loved it! I’d like to read more in the future.
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This sounds absolutely great – I need a copy!
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It is fantastic!
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This sounds great! I need a True Crime book for my Popsugar Challenge…I may have to pick this one up!!
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Have you read true crime before? This was my first and a great book to get my feet wet with.
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I have a very long time ago…20 years or more. I honestly don’t remember the book! This one does sound great! I was thinking of reading Mindhunter that the Netflix series is based on, which I loved. But I can read both!! 😊
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I’d pass on this but I hope you like it.
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I’m curious as to why she is searching for a serial killer. See what I’m featuring at Girl Who Reads
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Sounds like a good one!
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True Crime is not something I normally read, but you have sure tempted me with this one.
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