This week, we're trying something a little different with a true crime book recommendation.

Before true crime was a cultural phenomenon, before the podcasts and Netflix documentaries, Michelle McNamara was already there. Writing obsessively. Researching relentlessly. Chasing a killer no one had named yet.

She called him the Golden State Killer. And she spent years trying to find him.

She never got to see what happened next.

This week on Plot Twist, we're stepping back from the case files to talk about the woman behind one of the most important true crime books ever written and why her story matters just as much as the one she was telling.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts.