It took a while for this one to grab me, but I really appreciated it in the end. I don't consume a lot of real life true crime media, so I didn't realize this was a fictional account of a real life incident involving a serial killer until after I completed the book - but I still found it very compelling. It's not about the murders or about the Defendant, but the focus is on the women who were impacted by the deaths of these women. Pamela and Tina and Ruth were such great characters to follow, and I felt so angry on their behalf! Angry with the press and the police and the structures of society that made it hard for women to be anything other than polite and had them ignoring the uneasy feelings they had. There was some great commentary on the true crime genre here - and how the "brilliant, charismatic" serial killer was really just an inept, narcissistic, ugly, incel loser who only escaped because of incompetent law enforcement - and whose perception was highly shaped by the media.