Into the Water: An Astonishing True Story of Abduction, Murder, and the Nice Guy Next Door

Stories are good but there is so much superfluous details in Diane Faanning’s books I do a lot of skimming

Didn't enjoy book - think I may have misread a recommendation on another site. Should have gotten the other Into the Water by another author. Cannot recommend for anyone - didn't pass this one on.

I first saw Diane Fanning in an interview on a Discovery ID television show. Under her name the title was "true crime author". She seemed very astute and intelligent. I searched her name and went on thriftbooks to buy her book. The one that caught my eye was this one. Once I started reading I could not put it down. I finished the book in two days and was very impressed by her writing. I looked up her biography online and found out she has a bachelor's in chemistry . So there is no doubt that she is an intelligent woman, and more relevant, an excellent author.

Into the water was another well written disturbing book by Diane Fanning. In my opinion , interviews are one of the most important ingredients in a true crime book and Diane Fanning definitely goes to the limit conducting interviews. I would recommend the book to anyone that is a true crime fan.

Any kind of review one may write on a book, movie or anything else is all relative anyway. What you don't like, I may love ... and visa versa. But I have read true-crime books almost exclusively for years, and found this book to be one of the best. I do not find it filled w/ "tedious, unnecessary details", but instead an illustration of the progressive chaotic life of a serial killer. The book does not read like a newspaper article, as many do. This book makes you feel as if you are actually there, a bystander, living the horrific nightmares. Some true-crime books can become almost unbearable as you wait for the author to 'get to the point', and usually ... by the time it comes to the trial ... I put the book aside. Don't we already know how it ends by reading the back cover? And while we do know how this book ends, it still has a way of weaving the facts to draw us into the lives of the victims, their families, the investigation and the true story of a monster-in-the-making named Richard Marc Evonitz. I highly recommend this book.

This guy next door will haunt your dreams. Diane tells the story so well you feel as if you are actually travelling to each town he visited. And the odd coincidence of the serial killer's mother marrying another murderer in jail is just too bizarre. I'd followed the news coverage as this story happened and never ran across that odd piece of family dysfunction anywhere else.

Diane Fanning has done it again. The author's vivid description and dramatic storytelling allows us to step into the story and watch as it unfolds all around us, from the perspectives of all those involved. Readers can feel the emotions as deeply as an outsider ever could--from the victims and their families and friends to the law enforcement officials working the cases...from the friends, family members and neighbors of Richard Marc Evonitz to the man himself. The details are terrific; the pictures are chilling...Fanning masterfully weaves the detached stories of the victims' lives together in a cohesive story that is very easy to follow. The Afterword is a powerful closure that not only serves as a brilliant memorial to the young ladies we'll never know, but a cautionary tale to mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, sons, daughters, and friends everywhere.