You can now watch the adaptation of Robert Kolker's Lost Girls on Netflix and then dive deep into this captivating true crime read.
Lost Girls is the bestselling account of the lives of five young women whose fates converged in the perplexing case of the Long Island Serial Killer. It's a portrait of unsolved murders in an idyllic part of America, of the underside of the Internet, and of the secrets we keep without admitting to ourselves that we keep them. Long considered “one of the best true-crime books of all time” (Time), this edition includes a new epilogue that speaks to developments in the case, including the shocking fate of Mari Gilbert, Shannan’s mother, for whom this case became the crusade of a lifetime.
Check out this extraordinary praise that the book has received:
“Beautifully and provocatively written…. [Lost Girls] will make all but the hardest-hearted empathetic. Add a baffling whodunit that remains, as the subtitle indicates, unsolved, and you have a captivating true crime narrative that’s sure to win new converts and please longtime fans of the genre.”
—Publishers Weekly
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“Immensely evocative…we are left with is a visceral understanding of the lives of the victims and why they should have mattered more.”
—New York Daily News
“A gothic whodunit for the Internet age…nearly unputdownable…[Lost Girls is] a horrific, cautionary tale that makes for a very different kind of beach read…Kolker expertly chronicles the sad cycle of poor, uneducated white women faced with lots of kids and few resources.”
—Mimi Swartz, New York Times Book Review
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