I enjoyed my time spent with Paul Holes, "the detective who found the Golden State Killer." In this memoir, he recounts his career investigating cold cases (as well as the impact on his personal life).
I was struck by how kind he comes across. Often these sorts of memoirs can have an author who seems arrogant, self-centered, bombastic... instead Holes was almost deferential. I appreciated what he had to say about Michelle McNamara (author of I'll Be Gone in the Dark), who he met through her work on the Golden State Killer case. Holes also pointedly gave credit to a victim, saying that they probably saved lives. Overall I felt that he made it clear that victims were innocent; they weren't asking for what happened to them. Maybe none of these passages should stick out but given my previous experience with true crime shows/books, they really did.
I found the text very readable. UNMASKED was cowritten with Robin Gaby Fisher, who has written 12+ books and shares a Pulitzer Prize for news coverage of the resignation of a New Jersey governor. I also enjoyed listened to the audiobook, narrated by Paul Holes.
I was struck by how kind he comes across. Often these sorts of memoirs can have an author who seems arrogant, self-centered, bombastic... instead Holes was almost deferential. I appreciated what he had to say about Michelle McNamara (author of I'll Be Gone in the Dark), who he met through her work on the Golden State Killer case. Holes also pointedly gave credit to a victim, saying that they probably saved lives. Overall I felt that he made it clear that victims were innocent; they weren't asking for what happened to them. Maybe none of these passages should stick out but given my previous experience with true crime shows/books, they really did.
I found the text very readable. UNMASKED was cowritten with Robin Gaby Fisher, who has written 12+ books and shares a Pulitzer Prize for news coverage of the resignation of a New Jersey governor. I also enjoyed listened to the audiobook, narrated by Paul Holes.