Match BookChase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders
Billy Jensen
2019 · 336 pages · Narrative nonfiction
How it reads
Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders is narrative nonfiction (true crime, specifically), and its dominant mood is tense. The suspense is the kind you feel in your shoulders. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.
It's set in several locations, in the present day, told in the first person by a single narrator. Its central concerns are justice, loss and grief and secrets. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.
It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending resolves happily. At 336 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's moderately known: read by plenty of people, but not a household name.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something tense
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you want a complete story in one book
Maybe not if…
- you need something cosy or heartwarming
- you want dense, lingering prose
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- narrative nonfiction
- Author gender
- male
- Author experience
- debut
- Setting: place
- multiple locations
- Setting: time
- contemporary
- Mood / feeling
- tense
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- balanced
- Length
- medium
- Narrative style
- first person, one narrator
- Publication era
- recent
- Popularity
- moderately known
- Series vs standalone
- standalone
- Themes
- justice, loss and grief, secrets
- Ending style
- resolved and happy
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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