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

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Wyatt, Trumanell's older brother, was taken down to the station and grilled and grilled. It was Wyatt who was found down by the lake in a trance-like state. He's never been the same. Something happened that night that only Wyatt knows. Unfortunately, the truth hides in little corners in a shuttered mind. Five years later we see the story from the eyes of Angel, the one eyed girl whose life was changed by the help and attention that Odette gave to her in the few days that they knew each other. Angel is eighteen now, ready to start college on a full scholarship but first, she wants to find out what happened to Odette. Her outlook on life has been colored in a good way by what Odette left her, six strong words that describe them both, and she will use what she knows and her resourcefulness to find Odette and who made her disappear. Angel is the only thing that makes the darkness in the book bearable for me but she's walking right into that darkness, riling it up, and the bleakness of this land, people, and story make it very likely that Angel might be a third woman to go missing in this sad, violent tale. 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.

By the third point of view I was beginning to tire of the repetition of the story. I did enjoy this section the most because it finally gives us hope of a satisfying conclusion. I was ready for the ending when it came and it was a good close. 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 is very much a slow burner of a story. You have to wait until nearly the end for the ultimate payoff and for everything to come together. I would have liked a bit more exposition throughout and to know more as the story progressed rather than all dumped at the end.

Their murders were linked and ascribed to the spectre of the well-dressed, scripture-quoting killer who had apparently stalked the city’s dancehalls.A creepy, nerve bending, slow-burn mystery about two girls: one is missing for a decade and the other one is found but we don’t know her identity, her secret past and why she is found in the middle of the road.