When the Night Comes Falling
A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders
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4.5 • 4 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Instant New York Times Bestseller
“Compelling. . . . Blum capably maintains the suspense and thoughtfully probes into the motives of key players in this intriguing yet profoundly unsettling story.”—Kirkus Reviews"
The definitive, inside story of the Idaho murders from acclaimed bestselling author Howard Blum, whose groundbreaking coverage of the story was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
Timed for a trial that will capture national attention, When the Night Comes Falling examines the mysterious murders of the four University of Idaho students. Having covered this case from its start, Edgar award winning investigative reporter Howard Blum takes readers behind the scenes of the police manhunt that eventually led to suspected killer, Bryan Christopher Kohberger, and uncovered larger, lurid questions within this unthinkable tragedy.
Reminiscent of the panoramic portraiture of In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song, When the Night Comes Falling offers a suspenseful, richly detailed narrative that will have readers transfixed.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Journalist Blum (The Spy Who Knew Too Much) expands on his Air Mail coverage of the 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students in this mesmerizing true-crime account. Drawing on court documents and interviews, Blum reconstructs the early morning of November 13, when Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodel, Ethan Chapin, and Kaylee Goncalves were stabbed to death by a masked intruder in their off-campus apartment. Detectives arrested criminology student Bryan Kohberger after discovering security camera footage of his car at the scene, and Blum mounts a rigorous study of Kohberger's troubled teenage years, pulling from lengthy conversations with his father. Blum also digs into the case's many unanswered questions, including Kohberger's motive, and why the victims' neighbor refrained from calling 911 after seeing the assailant leave the apartment. The rigorous reporting is elevated by evocative prose (Goncalves's grieving father "had become another victim, another innocent sucked down into the swirling vortex of the hostile, destructive force that had been set loose in the aftermath of that terrible November night"), though Kohberger's upcoming trial means the narrative is necessarily incomplete. For now, however, Blum's thorough account stands as the definitive chronicle of a shocking crime.
