Rei ♡’s Reviews > I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer > Status Update

it’s weird seeing an air force base you’re fairly familiar with mentioned in a true crime novel.

”Why are you so interested in crime?” people ask me, and I always go back to that moment in the alley, the shards of a dead girl’s Walkman in my hands.
I need to see his face.
He loses power when we know his face.

Holding my newborn daughter, I got it. I got the love that guts you, the sense of responsibility that narrows the world to a pair of needy eyes, At thirty-nine, I understood my mother’s love for the first time.

cry count with this book so far: three times. oof.

Most violent criminals smash through life like human sledgehammers. They have fists for hands and can't plan beyond their sightlines. They're caught easily. They talk too much. They return to the scene of the crime, as conspicuous as tin cans on a bumper. But every so often a blue moon surfaces. A snow leopard slinks by.

Their father committed suicide two weeks before Christmas. The experience seemed to rob David of certainty. He was suspended in hesitation after that. His mouth smiled occasionally, but his eyes never did.

i typo’d in an earlier update and said i was on page 16. that was just the foreword, and now i’m in the book proper, and holy SHIT this is good.

putting my halo reads on hold for the time being to start this one.