Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders

Today's post is on Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders by Billy Jensen. It is 336 pages long and is published by Source Books. The cover is blue with a road in the center like a fuzzy picture. There intended reader is someone who is interested in true crime. There is some foul language, no sex, and violence in this book. The story is told from first person perspective of the author.

From the back of the book- Have you ever wanted to solve a murder? Gather the clues the police overlooked? Put together the pieces? Identify the suspect?
Journalist Billy Jensen spent fifteen years investigating unsolved murders, fighting for the families of victims. Every story he wrote had one thing in common―they didn't have an ending. The killer was still out there.
But after the sudden death of a friend, crime writer and author of I'll Be Gone in the Dark, Michelle McNamara, Billy became fed up. Following a dark night, he came up with a plan. A plan to investigate past the point when the cops had given up. A plan to solve the murders himself.
You'll ride shotgun as Billy identifies the Halloween Mask Murderer, finds a missing girl in the California Redwoods, and investigates the only other murder in New York City on 9/11. You'll hear intimate details of the hunts for two of the most terrifying serial killers in history: his friend Michelle McNamara's pursuit of the Golden State Killer and his own quest to find the murderer of the Allenstown Four. And Billy gives you the tools―and the rules―to help solve murders yourself.
Gripping, complex, unforgettable, Chase Darkness with Me is an examination of the evil forces that walk among us, illustrating a novel way to catch those killers, and a true-crime narrative unlike any you've read before.

Review- This was a great true crime read about a man who wanted to help more people get justice for loved ones. Jensen was just a beat crime reporter when he became obsessed with unsolved crimes. Jensen takes the reader from where his interest in true crime started as a child with his father to working with Michelle McNamara and helping finish her book after her death. Jensen is a good writer with a heart in the right place when dealing with victims and their families. He had to earn the trust of the police, the families, and others in the media and he did it on their terms. H=He gives the readers that have been solved but most of the cases he writes about still need to be solved. I really enjoyed this book and if you like true crime then you should give this book a try.

I give this book a Five out Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I found this advanced reader's copy at my local library.