The God Con
  • The God Con
  • About
  • Book Purchase/Contact Author
  • Index
  • HMS Terror Wood Model
Tap the quote to scroll...

​
​The God Con
Pay
Pray Obey​

Certainly not The Good Book,
But perhaps a good book.
Picture

I'll be Gone in the Dark; Michelle McNamara; 2017; Harper Collins; 328 pgs; no index

29/5/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture
​The book is not particularly my cup of tea. Nevertheless, I enjoyed it, despite the sad subject. The Golden State Killer, also known as the East Area Rapist, raped and killed from the 70s until just recently when he was caught. An ex-cop! Michelle died in 2016 before the book was started.

I saw Patten Oswald, the author's widower, on a talk show and was intrigued. The book was stitched together from McNamara's extensive research and writings on the GSK. In fact, she provided the moniker. She was obsessed with this particular case. She maintained a crime web site for many years. She was tireless in her quest to see the GSK put away. Endless interviews, site visits and so on were her bread and butter.

She had written published articles on the subject, as well as several partially complete  essays, and reams of notes and thoughts. These were compiled together into this book.

Her writing is excellent. The subject matter is gruesome, but she never allowed the reader to get drawn too deep into the darkness. Unfortunately, other parts of the books are not her words directly. The narrative jumps about in time, which is confusing, is it tries to pull the pieces together.

Reading about young women (and couples), attacked, bound, psychologically tortured, and often finally raped and killed is pretty hard.

The GSK was finally found by submitting DNA to a commercial DNA ancestry tracing service. The bad guy turned out to be a cop. Surprised? I am not. Rape is about exercising power and control over others. That is practically the job description of a cop.

The book is engrossing and despite that fact that I knew how it was to end, enjoyable (and disturbing). It is a real shame that the murderer was caught just after her death and the release of the book. She earned the right to see the story's ending.       

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Lee Moller is a life-long skeptic and atheist and the author of The God Con.

    Archives

    December 2024
    August 2024
    May 2024
    January 2024
    November 2023
    August 2023
    July 2023
    May 2023
    April 2023
    March 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    May 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    November 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    March 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017

    Categories

    All
    Books
    Comment
    Critical Thinking And Skepticism
    Donald Trump
    Quotes
    RCC
    Reviews
    Science
    The God Con

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • The God Con
  • About
  • Book Purchase/Contact Author
  • Index
  • HMS Terror Wood Model