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General Nonfiction
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Deal begins:
October 29, 2022
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October 29, 2022
A lacking younger lady. A Los Angeles lodge with a haunting historical past. A perplexing real-life thriller. With beautiful new insights and impeccable analysis, investigative journalist Jake Anderson explores the case that captivated a nation and impressed the Netflix collection Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel! Exclusive interviews and images included.
Twenty-one-year-old pupil Elisa Lam was final heard from on January 31, 2013, after she checked into downtown L.A.’s Cecil Hotel—a 600-room constructing with a nine-decade historical past of scandal and tragedy. The subsequent day, Elisa vanished. More than every week later, friends’ complaints of poor water high quality led to a grim discovery: Elisa’s nude physique floating in a rooftop water tank. The solely clue was a disturbing elevator video of Elisa, uploaded to YouTube in a plea for public help.
As the video went viral, journalist Jake Anderson got down to uncover the info. In Gone at Midnight he chronicles eye-opening discoveries about who Elisa Lam actually was and what—or whom—she was operating from, providing beautiful new insights into one of the vital chilling and obsessively adopted true crime circumstances of the century.
“Outstanding . . . What really happened to Lam may never be known, but true crime buffs won’t want to miss this gripping search for the truth.”
–Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW
“Extremely detailed and featuring new evidence. . . . Anderson’s thorough research and passionate writing make a fascinating read.”
–Booklist
“Gone at Midnight is the type of true crime book that you stay up all night reading.”
–New York Journal of Books
A Fortune journal“Most Anticipated Books of the Year” Selection
A Goodreads Featured Release
An Oxygen Best True Crime Book of the Year
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