Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
As a book that explores how women can be sucked into the world of Craigslist sex work despite its obvious risks of disease, pain, and in the case of these women: death. The book struggles in the last third because of the lack of leads/suspects in the case, and there's no satisfying conclusion to the book because there's never been an arrest or even a likely suspect or person of interest. Attempts to make one of the residents of Oak Beach appear like the killer are pretty flat.
It's a well-written book, but it almost feels like it came before it's time. So close in time to the deaths of these women, and without a lot of the answers that a coherent investigation/prosecution would have provided, it's ultimately unsatisfying. I think it would have been better edited down to a piece of long-form journalism.
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