I thought this was a good classic true crime story. The author did a good job of presenting the women as people who were victims of a man, rather than presenting the whole story as A Man who Killed People. I also thought the author did a fairly good job of including the fact that though police were the ones who solved the case, the people of South Central did have good reason not to trust the police. I think if I had read this five years ago, I would have reacted a lot more along the lines of “the detectives are just doing what’s best!” And I think it’s a good thing that that isn’t my immediate reaction anymore. Evidence abounds in this book and in real life that the police do some terrible things and get away with it. This book isn’t especially groundbreaking, per se, but it tells a compelling true crime story and brings more general awareness to an overlooked story.