A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice
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This kept my attention for the eleventy billion hours I found myself attached to a breast pump, AND I think I would have appreciated it more if McGarrahan had expanded the scope of the book more toward the things she talks about in the epilogue, about the problems with the justice system, with the policing system and police interrogations, the death penalty and who benefits from the legal system and who doesn't when it comes to who winds up on death row. Though I can see how maybe this white lady wasn't the best person to tell some of those stories. Ultimately, though I found the case and the stories of the accused murderers to be interesting, I got frustrated by the continual rehashing of things and that McGarrahan kept trying to make unreliable witnesses into reliable sources, as if that would actually change how haunted she had felt for going-on 25 years.