We All Go into the Dark: A Waterstones Best True Crime Read

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Three women were brutally murdered between early 1968 and late 1969, each after a night dancing at Glasgow’s infamous Barrowland Ballroom. Their murders were linked and ascribed to the spectre of the well-dressed, scripture-quoting killer who had apparently stalked the city’s dancehalls. The figure was never caught or identified. In We All Go Into the Dark, Garcia overhauls the journalist-solves-crime tropes in favour of something more nuanced and complex. Instead, he explores how the dark shadow of afigure borne from fear, imagination and press-induced hysteria retreated into Glaswegian folklore and took on alife of its own. Loved this book. Such a well written thriller. I'm not sure what has me withholding 5 full stars??? However, it was darn close to perfect. Maybe the pace? I'm not sure because I really didn't have any issue with the slower pace. I would have if I had read this years ago, but I'm proud that I'm a more mature reader at this point and I thought this was truly fantastic.

Three POVED narration, dark, cryptic, intense, high tensioned small town mystery reminds you of tango between True Detective and Fargo (a little Twin Peaks vibes included). Quirky, traumatized characters, slow dramatic story building and surprising, heart wrenching ending. Whether we needed another book about Bible John is arguable, but nobody can fault Francisco Garcia's evidently meticulous research. Would it be fair to say you saw your exploration of the mythology surrounding Bible John is more of ahuman interest story than atrue crime breakdown? Or abit of both? Now Wyatt lives alone, talking to the ghost of Tumanell, and Odette has followed in her father’s footsteps. She has a bad, bad mystery to her. I can feel it deep in the hollow of my spook bone, the one my dad broke when I was a kid. My arm is never wrong."

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The story takes place in rural Texas. The main characters are two women, Odette and Angel. Both women are strong, gritty, and determined. I do enjoy stories that center around resilient women. A captivating, eloquent and deeply original book, We All Go into the Dark is an absolute must-read for true-crime fans across the board. I received a copy of this book from Random House/Ballantine and Netgalley in return for an unbiased review. A young girl is found on the side of the road, surrounded by dandelions and missing one eye. What is this girls story and why was she on the side of the road. She won't speak to anyone. They name her Angel. Three women were brutally murdered between early 1968 and late 1969, each after a night dancing at Glasgow's infamous Barrowland Ballroom. Their murders were linked and ascribed to the spectre of the well-dressed, scripture-quoting killer who had apparently stalked the city's dancehalls. The figure was never caught or identified.

Overall, this is my kind of Mystery/Suspense! I know it may have been a slow burn for some people, but it was the slow build that added all that delicious suspense and apprehension and the ‘Gothic feel’ everyone was gushing about. Sometimes good things come to those who wait…I knew about Bible John through reading Ian Rankin's Rebus novels, but I had never read a true account of the murders he was supposed to have committed, so I was intrigued to read this. Bible John has never been caught, indeed there are question, as now as to whether the same man murdered the three women in question or whether they were completely unrelated.

If You Were There is the moving and affecting story of one man’s search for his lost family, an urgent document of where we are now and a powerful, timeless reminder of our responsibility to others.Wyatt Branson’s sister Trumanell and father Frank disappeared 10 years ago. Everyone assumes that they are dead and that either Wyatt killed them both or Frank killed his daughter and then ran away. Wyatt still imagines that Trumanell is with him and has frequently had problems with law enforcement. Also haunted by these events is Odette who was Wyatt’s girlfriend in those days and has followed in her father’s footsteps to become a cop. Wyatt is pretty much the last person you would want to take in a runaway girl, who is dubbed Angel, after he finds her collapsed in a field. The story is told in parts, first by Wyatt, then by Odette and finally (5 years later) by Angel. Wyatt’s was my favorite voice but unfortunately his part of the book was the shortest. He wasn’t fleshed out enough. If he had been, the conclusion of the book would have been more understandable. The author was more focused on a realistic presentation of prosthetics and those who wear them than she was on coming up with plausible motivations. I wasn’t crazy about the ending, but the book did hold my interest. When Iwas in Glasgow, Igot talking to someone in apub, as you do,” he says, Zooming in from his home in South London. ​ “He mentioned it was coming up to the Bible John case’s 50 th ​ ‘anniversary’ – Ithought it seemed odd to talk about such an objectively horrifying story in that way, like it was apop culture anniversary.” This was a buddy read with CeeCee and I thank her for helping me get through some confusing sections. The characters here are beautiful--flawed, damaged, tender, and painted with a depth that will astound you. Troubled Odette, lost Wyatt, and Angel, the girl found in the field. They form a trio that one is unlikely to forget for quite some time. Their murders were linked and ascribed to the spectre of the well-dressed, scripture-quoting killer who had apparently stalked the city’s dancehalls.