![]() The property that was the scene of the crime-formerly a porn shop-is up for sale. ![]() What is truth? Who gets to tell it? What if a truth is based on someone else’s truth that wasn’t really true or perceived through preconceived notions? That’s the conundrum, as related by Devil House’s narrator, a (fictional) author named Gage Chandler, whose greatest success, a true crime book titled The White Witch of Morro Bay, was made into a movie that so embarrassed him he only saw it once.Īfter writing about other crimes, Chandler’s editor suggests his next book explore an unsolved double murder with Satanic overtones that took place on Halloween night 15 years earlier in Milpitas, California. There is much to admire in Devil House-including lyrical writing-but omigosh, this book takes so much work! Author John Darnielle, singer-songwriter of the band Mountain Goats, whose 2014 novel Wolf in White Van was a National Book Award nominee, has produced a work that utilizes reams of words across 416 pages to illustrate a fairly simple point: writing about true crime is complicated. ![]()
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