The Midnight Assassin

Picked this audiobook out purely based on the title and did not realize it was about my hometown! Can confirm we learned about the Moonlight Towers in school but not the reason they went up.

Loved how he included extra information about the culture of the city at the time.
Bonus points for the excellent narrator.

I was familiar with the midnight assassin, but had not gone out of my way to learn more. To be frank, this book felt more to be about socioeconomics in Austin rather than about the murders themselves.

Similarly, it feels like the author just tried to cram all of their research into the book, whether it adds to the narrative or not. The text could have been much more incisive and quickly-paced if all the meandering sentences about one-off characters had been cut.

Somehow I ended up with another book about an unsolved mystery! Argh!

These murders were horrific. It amazing to me that even with the limited forensics (or complete lack of) that no one was caught. So many times he was right there when a passerby or family member came upon the bodies and yet still, no one had any idea who the killer could be.

So much history about Austin (ugh history), but it was all interesting. Especially the sort of Keystone Cops sort of shenanigans that were going on in a situation that shouldn't have been handled by such incompetent people!

The book really moved. The amount of details and number of character was amazing. The author keep it interesting and made you care for them victims and the accused. Well done.