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

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The last point of view is that of Angel, given this name by Wyatt when he found her and she was mute. He thought she looked like an angel lying in the dandelions. One fateful night, that would go down in infamy, Trumanell Branson and her father disappeared. Trumanell's brother, Wyatt, was found wandering around, out of his mind, and ended up institutionalized for years. There are similarities between this book and your previous one, about what makes people worth searching for, paying attention to and what compels authorities and the public to care. Often, the worst people in these scenarios end up being mythologised. Would you agree with that?

The author started working on the book in 2018, while on an assignment to write an unrelated piece in Glasgow. He had just wrapped up If You Were There, afascinating exploration of what it means to go missing, part-inspired by Garcia’s own search for his estranged father. Odette’s point of view was interesting but she seemed to be going in so many directions. It was hard to believe she could even function on little sleep and not much support. She doesn’t trust anyone, not even her partner, Rusty. 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? 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. 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.”

Odette is then drawn into the case of who the young mute woman is because Wyatt reaches out to her for help. She is now determined to solve the mystery of who she is and whom she may be running from. In We All Go into the Dark, Francisco Garcia delves into how Bible John has morphed across generations, interrogates our collective obsession with ‘solving’ historic crimes and questions why some killings are forgotten with indecent haste and why others are never permitted to be forgotten at all. 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. 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. 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.

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While the town is convinced Wyatt is responsible, Odette isn’t convinced, but the truth may not set her free… 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. Three women were brutally murdered between early 1968 and late 1969, each after a night dancing at Glasgow’s infamous Barrowland Ballroom. But the intervening years spawned a legend that never quite lost its grip on the popular imagination of Glasgow. The killings provoked the country’s largest ever manhunt, as well as countless suspects, books, documentaries, earnest speculation, pub theorising and bouts of urban mythmaking. 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.