It takes about eight to ten hours to hand-dig a grave, more if you was doing it in the dark. Five to six if you have a helper. It ain’t like the movies.

What the author does achieve, very well, is to give us a real flavour of Glasgow in the 60s and 70s. I also found some excellent resources for further reading, as the author mentions various books throughout.

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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. Thank you to Random House Ballantine Books and Netgalley for the opportunity to read and provide an honest review.

Whether we needed another book about Bible John is arguable, but nobody can fault Francisco Garcia's evidently meticulous research. But it's Wyatt who comes across a young girl unconscious in a field. She's surrounded in a circle of dandelions. Wyatt brings her to his ranch. The girl refuses to utter a word. He calls her Angel. Odette will become involved. And Angel will take this storyline to an unexpected level with an aftermath like a Texas Tornado. Odette is a policewoman who is called because someone thinks Wyatt kidnapped a girl. Odette gets involved, trying to help the mute girl, Angel. Oh, and the girl has only one eye. Odette herself is an amputee, with a prosthetic leg. Heaberlin writes these two characters perfectly. The reader learns the difficulties each woman needed to overcome with their disabilities. These disabilities do not define them because they are resilient and strong.As with all thrillers and mysteries, the plot is not able to be told without spoilers. This is a story about strong women characters who stop at nothing to find their missing friend and solving the mystery of what happened that fateful night. Angel’s story is one of courage, and we do learn how Angel lost her eye and Odette lost her leg. Their murders were linked and ascribed to the spectre of the well-dressed, scripture-quoting killer who had apparently stalked the city’s dancehalls.

Three women were brutally murdered between early 1968 and late 1969, each after a night dancing at Glasgow’s infamous Barrowland Ballroom. Their murders were linked and ascribed to the spectre of the well-dressed, scripture-quoting killer who had apparently stalked the city’s dancehalls. The figure was never caught or identified. Overall: This book needs your patience and attention. I had really hard time to get into the story and fully focus on the writing. And slowness made me lose interest. I gave some breaks and tried reading again and before reaching the middle, I was already hooked and connected with characters. I recommend you to keep your patience and not to give up on this book. It takes a little time and the beginning was a little rough patch for me but later you’d get used to the pacing, characterization and the mystery blows your mind so you don’t want to leave it and keep reading. Yeah, 100 per cent. It certainly wasn’t aconscious choice, but Isuppose it’s what I’m interested in. I’m always abit careful in calling Bible John a ​ “myth” or ​ “construct”, even though he is, to an extent. Bible John, the idea of ascripture-quoting serial killer, that’s amyth and aconstruct. But the facts are that three women were murdered. By who, or whether they were linked, we don’t know. There are certainly people who are coming out of it 40, 50years later valorised when they aren’t worth valorising. Particularly Joe Beattie, the police officer who oversaw the initial investigation that was tinged with weirdness and hysteria.

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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.

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. Special thanks to NetGalley and Random House/Ballantine Books for sharing this splendid ARC with me in exchange my honest review. This was my first true crime novel for some time, I probably should have started on something less dry. I’ve never heard of the bible John case and therefore wasn’t really familiar with the fact that it’s an unsolved case that being the case I persevered. The first section of this book was informative and helped bring me up to speed but the second half with interviews with people made it slow reading - I understand the the author didn’t really have anywhere to go as I said before it’s an unsolved crime so dallied over the theories of tv personalities and previous investigators as to who might be the killer - without any really further leads it’s difficult to say who actually was bible John and it made for frustrating reading knowing that lots of forensic evidence was never obtained or was missed. Set in a small town in Texas. The town is eerily obsessed about a girl named Trumanell and her father who went missing ten years ago. Odette is a police officer who knew these two people. Trumanell was her friend. Odette makes it her job to try to solve this mystery. The people in town suspect that Trumanells brother, Wyatt is behind the disappearances.This was a buddy read with CeeCee and I thank her for helping me get through some confusing sections. While the town is convinced Wyatt is responsible, Odette isn’t convinced, but the truth may not set her free… Now Wyatt lives alone, talking to the ghost of Tumanell, and Odette has followed in her father’s footsteps.