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I'll Be Gone in the Dark
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If you’ve had a chance to dig into I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, you’ll have read the introduction by Gillian Flynn, a novelist whose thrillers explore the dark and complicated motivations of criminal characters. Do you enjoy reading crime novels as well as true crime? Do you prefer one genre over the other and if so, why? How does the experience of reading a fictional crime story differ from reading a factual true crime account?
Flynn begins the introduction with a reference to “the girl” – the unsolved murder of a neighbour that sparked Michelle McNamara’s interest in true crime. For Flynn, it was reading the Truman Capote classic, In Cold Blood, that ignited her own obsession. Was there a particular case or book that inspired your own interest in the true crime genre?
Were you familiar with the man McNamara dubbed “the Golden State Killer” before picking up this book? Are there any other unsolved crimes that fascinate you, or keep you up at night?