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History Regional U.S. Serial Killers Social Science Social Sciences True Accounts True Crime WestThe authors point of view throughout the whole case really makes this book a page turner. I was never into non fiction books until I picked this book up and now I can’t stop reading true crime novels, and this one has been the best and most detailed novel I’ve ive read still to this day five years after reading this novel the first time. So a good read and would recommend to anyone into true crime or mystery novels!!
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This book is so tragic but mesmerizing. How could someone get away with these tragic events. Beautiful victims caught in a monsters web.
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A lot of other reviews note the stretches, hunches and speculation that appear in this book as its primary weaknesses. None of them, however, note that most police work is based on hunches and stretches, and most crimes are solved through nearly blind speculation. In fact, crafting the opening salvo of solving a crime is all speculation, as the only people who were actually at the scene as the crime took place were the victims...
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I bought this book after seeing David Fincher's excellent film "Zodiac" and the book is even better! It's a real page turner! It's in diary format and is very suspenseful, told in mystery style. I was expecting a fact by fact book, but this is a story and the book progresses as each suspect is identified. Even though I knew that the killer is not caught, I kept hoping that he would be caught. Robert Graysmith is a very...
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Several years ago, I read "Zodiac Unmasked" by Robert Graysmith. The disorganized writing style detracted from my enjoyment of the book. I recently got around to reading Graysmith's original book "Zodiac". While this book is much more professionally written, it only differs from "Zodiac Unmasked" in that "Zodiac" refers to prime suspect Arthur Leigh Allen in the alias Robert Hall Starr. Graysmith still has the same suspect...
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