Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“If you get killed in America, there is a 38 percent chance your killer won’t be caught.”

Chase Darkness With Me: How One True Crime Writer Started Solving Murders by Billy Jensen

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30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 2 Book 17/30 Yessss, I am still catching up on reviews from books I read in April. My goal is to be caught up by the end of June; we’ll see if I can do it, especially since in July I’m going to try and read the most amount of books I’ve ever read in a month (31!). It is going to be a Project.* *I am attempting to do this feat because I want to see if I […]

“If you get killed in America, there is a 38 percent chance your killer won’t be caught.”

Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders by Billy Jensen

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Bill Jensen became interested in crime (and catching bad guys) at a young age — his father used to read him newspaper articles as bedtime stories. He even tells a heart-warming tale of learning about Son of Sam with his dad. This created a life-long obsession with crime from Jensen, and eventually led to him to not only help finish Michelle McNamara’s I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, but also help solve other crimes and help find missing people. “Whenever people ask me why I […]

This is as much a self-portrait of an obsessive mind as it is a true crime book.

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I will not let this review defeat me! I will not! I have so much to say about this book I don’t know how to organize it, and I’m still not sure what I’m going to rate it even as I type this; and I’m still freaked out by it, and still sad, and I want the Golden State Killer caught, but what if he’s dead?? If he’s dead, we’re never going to catch him!! ARGGGGh. Okay, so I’ve been looking forward to this book […]



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