Reporting the story of drug-addicted black women living in Central LA in the 1980s on and how they were preyed upon by a serial killer is important, especially given that none of the women's deaths were reported on or investigated at length by the LAPD until years, or even decades, later. If they'd been blonde haired white women their deaths wouldn't have been swept under the rug. So while the subjects of this book were very important, the writing was basic and disappointing compared to other true crime writing. For instance, this book included virtually identical paragraphs within its chapters. The formatting on the kindle edition was weird which made reading the text a bit odious at times. The last third of the book is mostly quoted transcripts from the trial when the killer was brought to justice.