Book description
'Fearless and fierce ... transcends a crime story to be a story that threatens social order' - Michael Connelly
'Bewitching . . . a tale of horror that is also humane and self-aware' - Jennifer Egan
'[Lauren] writes in film-noir ... American prose, so you feel you're in the seamy…
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1 author picked Behold the Monster as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Lauren writes a true crime book but not just as an "objective" reporter but as a human being going through this horrific experience of sitting with America's most prolific serial killer month after month and that impact on her as a person, so this was a combo true crime and memoir. I liked the multiple dimensions of that unusual subgenre.
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