I Have Some Questions For You

This was interesting. It was less a thriller and more a think piece on the justice system after you've entered it, the Innocence Project and our love affair with true crime podcasts. Makkai shows podcasters from all the angles, the cringeworthy, pleading self-important ones, the ones who truly believe they can help solve a crime and those who think that by solving a crime they will become famous. But it never strays from the bleakness that is the most likely innocent man remaining in prison for a crime he may not have committed. And you have to ask yourself, how common is this? What unbelievable set of circumstances paired with wrong place, wrong time could set your life on a course you cannot escape from? What does a belief in “the truth will come out” really get you? The book is dark and filled with hopelessness and we never really get a conclusion. And that is what I loved most about this.