True Crime Story

Well, shucks. You wouldn't think a book made up primarily of interview transcripts could suck you in, but it REALLY did for a while there. I also appreciated how the correspondence sections act as a book club for the reader, speculating on what we've learned so far, where it's going next, and of course teasing new info... It effectively built up three quarters of a blisteringly well-paced and characterized story and then, I dunno, just didn't land.  Twist not satisfying, ending not satisfying, just more missing and dead women and some plea for how the killer might be “just misunderstood”. 🤢It appears that my disinterest/distaste for reading true crime as I feel it sensationalizes, or at the very least, presents for the interest of readers, real human misery, partially extends to mystery novels formatted like true crime. Especially with the author inserting himself as a suspect and the stock pictures of real people standing in for murdered characters, really creeped me out.This feels more like Jai's tragic story than Zoe's. I'm grateful that Jai and Kim get happy endings.
 I think this reads more like a mystery, but characters' capacity to be nasty to each other, sharpened humour, and ultimate reveals are more like a thriller, and as you may know, I hate those. 
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