SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2018. A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer – the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorised California for over a decade – from Michelle McNamara. 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 some of the best detectives in the area. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark – the masterpiece McNamara was writing at the time of her sudden death – offers a chilling account of a criminal mastermind and the wreckage he left behind. Framed by an introduction by Gillian Flynn and an afterword by her husband, Patton Oswalt, the book was completed by Michelle’s lead researcher and a close colleague. Utterly original and compelling, it is destined to become a true crime classic – and may at last unmask the Golden State Killer.