In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child Audiobook

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• “Searing…a riveting tale that demonstrates the investigation’s effect on solving cases even three decades later.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• “Riveting…reported with empathy and Cross’s signature combination of unflinching detail and gut-punching revelations.”

  — Beth Macy, New York Times bestselling author of Dopesick and Raising Lazarus

• Kim Cross has taken a story we thought we knew and shown so much more, a life beyond the headlines. I cut myself on parts of it, as the author put a human face -- and spirit -- on this great sadness, and the mystery that haunted us. It is written without adornment, but still rich in details. That is a hard thing to do.”  —Rick Bragg, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

• Riveting… reported with empathy and Cross’s signature combination of unflinching detail and gut-punching revelations.

  — Beth Macy author of Dopesick and Raising Lazarus

• A terrifying story told with compassion, empathy, and insight. Meticulously researched, In Light of All Darkness illuminates a murder that stunned the nation and the complex forensic science used to solve the case. Try as I might, I couldn’t turn these heart-thumping pages fast enough – and neither, I suspect, will you.

  — Kathryn Miles, author of Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

• Writing with extraordinary care and compassion, Kim Cross shows not only the crime and its impact on the victims, but how the Polly Klaas case forever changed the way such crimes are investigated by law enforcement and viewed by the American people and mass media. In Light of all Darkness is not just another ‘true crime’ title, but real and essential American history.

  — Glenn Stout, author of Young Woman and the Sea and Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid

• Kim Cross has obsessively spun banker boxes of research into an against-the-clock thriller.  In Light of all Darkness transcends the true-crime genre.  It’s a page-turner built on deep research, literary empathy, and a personal involvement with the real people—the ones who suffered, who did the work, those who paid the price.”  —Charles Graeber, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Nurse and The Breakthrough

• Searing...a riveting tale that demonstrates the investigation's effect on solving cases even three decades later.

  — Kirkus

• Cross’ coverage is polished and respectful, with a clear expression of ideas and heartfelt but dispassionate reporting. True crime and police procedural aficionados will find her treatment thoroughly informative and incredibly moving.”  —Booklist

• Her verbs pulsate, her narrative web sucks you in. Mostly, Cross makes you care.

  — Beth Macy, New York Times-bestselling author of Factory Man

• A splendid reporter, and even better writer.

  — Diane McWhorter, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Carry Me Home

• Kim Cross has brought the real people behind the headlines vividly to life in these stirring pages. She is an amazing writer, a great reporter with a novelist's gifts for character and scene.

  — Lee Smith, author of Guests on Earth

• Kim Cross is gifted, whirlwind of a writer who weaves coherence, meaning, and yes, even beauty from chaos.

  — Kevin Fedarko, author of The Emerald Mile

• Kim Cross could teach of few novelists about how to tell a gripping, spell-binding, heart-wrenching tale.

  — Clarion-Ledger

• Sumptuous… a startlingly intimate document, chockablock with family snapshots, that goes beyond steel decking, glass walls, concrete caissons, and the geometry of H columns and I beams. It’s a love song to a global icon that was, for the residents themselves, no museum.

  — Vanity Fair, Praise for The Stahl House