Many thanks to NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer Amazon Publishing for gifting me a digital ARC of this true crime memoir by Tamara Leitner. All opinions expressed in this review are my own - 4 stars!
Tamara Leitner is an Emmy Award-winning journalist who writes of her decades-long investigation and personal connection to a serial rapist. In 1999, she woke to an active crime scene outside her Arizona apartment. Her neighbors had been sexually assaulted by a man later identified as Claude Dean Hull. Tamara suffered with guilt and fear after this near assault and became obsessed with investigating Hull and his crimes.
The crimes in this story are appalling, as are the struggles of the justice system when is comes to sexual violence. I'd like to hope that things have gotten better with the passing of time, but I'm not convinced this is true for the victims. Certainly, some of the technological advances we have today would have helped in the investigation of these crimes. I appreciated how Leitner focused so much on the victims of these crimes, letting us feel their pain and the resultant trauma. Intermixed are chapters about the author's personal relationship, which presented a different kind of trauma. The timeline wasn't straightforward throughout and I admit to not being able to keep everything straight in my mind while reading.
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