I love Kevin Pierce when he reads true crime. He has the best voice for it. He’s my all-time favorite. His performance is perfect. I will always pick up a book he narrates if it is a true crime and give it a try. Always. . . This story, however, is fine for what it was. The authors need to work on showing vs. telling. Maybe less ranting. Think about who is your audience. Are you writing to the killer or the general public? If the goal is to make the killer mad by calling him a coward one hundred billion times, then this book was written exactly for who it was written for…. On the other hand, if the goal was to write this book for the general public, to raise awareness of the man on the bridge who needed to be found, then we already agree with you. The man who did these horrible crimes needs to be found. He is not a good man. We want to help. Great. Now, give us interviews with the family and those on the path that day. If you think the cops left something out, then you do the interviewing. Hit the ground and do the work. Re-interview everyone. Then take those interviews and show us from their perspective what happened that day. Show us the story that needs to be told. Podcasts are about telling, but books are about showing. Slowing down and placing the reader in the moment. Place the read alongside the girls. There are brief seconds where the author does accomplish it but pops back out. Hone the skill. It is there.
That said, the authors did raise some interesting points. Like the biker who gets gunned down, and the suspect who supposedly is at an appointment with his pregnant wife as they get an ultrasound completed. Yet the wife is like fairly certain he was with her that day? She wasn’t 100% certain. I remember my ultrasounds and who was in the room, especially a significant other. Why is she not 100% certain? The book has potential. It needs some work.