River of Bones: The Gruesome True Story of Gary Ridgway's Reign of Terror

For twenty years, a monster wore the mask of an ordinary man. He was Gary Ridgway, a quiet, church-going truck painter from Auburn, Washington. He was a husband, a neighbor, a face in the crowd. He was also the most prolific serial killer in American history, a demon who hunted the rain-slicked streets of Seattle, collecting souls and discarding their bodies in the forgotten woods and murky waters of the Green River.

This is not a conventional true crime story. This is a 238-page descent int...