Finished this book yesterday morning and I must say Stella Sands did very good job. This book contains a lot of small chapters. For example one thing she did was write in short the mayor news events that happened for example in 1977 and then she also added something Rodney Alcala was doing, or had done. Killed someone.

I also liked that she did start from the beginning. With his first victim. She lets us in on the lives of all his victims, trying so that we get to know the girls that were murdered and their families. Only negative thing is that at the end it got just a little bit long-winded but all in all I do recommend this book. ( )

I haven't read anything by Stella Sands, but I will look for more of her work. So many true crime books are a listing of facts in a dry almost textbook manner, but Sands turns the facts into an interesting tale. Although I knew that the women she previews are going to die in the upcoming pages, it doesn't take away from the "oh no" factor. I kept hoping that one of them would get away; would turn up some place, safe.

The one word of warning I would add is that Rodney Alcala was a sadistic murderer and Sands doesn't hold back in the graphic descriptions of how his victims were tortured or found. It might be a bit upsetting to some.

I found the book hard to put down but I had to because life/work got in the way, but I highly recommend this book. ( )