True crime is not typically my genre because I'm a scaredy-cat, but I felt compelled to read I'll Be Gone in the Dark as both a fan of Patton Oswalt and to satisfy my Book Riot Read Harder Challenge of "ready a book published posthumously."

I only wish Michelle McNamara had been able to finish this book in her way, because the portions written completely by her were compelling and nuanced and I really feel like she could have solved the damn thing.

I did appreciate the very clear way the editors noted the sections that were either cobbled together from her notes or drafts or written by others and the introduction and post-script written by Gillian Flynn and her husband Patton Oswalt were also wonderful. Alas, because the book was not finished by McNamara, I felt the ending was sudden and not super fulfilling after reading about so much horrible rape and murder.

Definitely lock your doors people and be glad DNA testing now exists. Yikes!