Killing Season, Carlton Smith
Killing Season, Carlton Smith
3 Rating(s)
List: $29.99 | Sale: $21.00
Club: $14.99

Killing Season
The Unsolved Case of New England's Deadliest Serial Killer

Author: Carlton Smith

Narrator: John Glouchevitch

Unabridged: 9 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 08/27/2019

Synopsis

A New York Times–bestselling journalist traces a string of unsolved murders—and the botched investigation that let the New Bedford Highway Killer walk away.Over the course of seven months in 1988, eleven women disappeared off the streets of New Bedford, Massachusetts, a gloomy, drug-addled coastal town that was once the whaling capital of the world. Nine turned up dead. Two were never found. And the perpetrator remains unknown to this day.How could such a thing happen? How, in what was once one of America's richest cities, could the authorities let their most vulnerable citizens down this badly? As Carlton Smith, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his coverage of the Green River Killer case, demonstrates in this riveting account, it was the inability of police officers and politicians alike to set aside their personal agendas that let a psychopath off the hook.In Killing Season, Smith takes readers into a close-knit community of working-class men and women, an underworld of prostitution and drug abuse, and the halls of New England law enforcement to tell the story of an epic failure of justice.

About Carlton Smith

Carlton Smith (1947–2011) was a prizewinning crime reporter and the author of dozens of books. Born in Riverside, California, Smith graduated from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, with a degree in history. He began his journalism career at the Los Angeles Times and arrived at the Seattle Times in 1983, where he and Tomas Guillen covered the Green River Killer case for more than a decade. They were named Pulitzer Prize finalists for investigative reporting in 1988 and published the New York Times bestseller The Search for the Green River Killer (1991) ten years before investigators arrested Gary Ridgway for the murders. Smith went on to write twenty-five true crime books, including Killing Season (1994), Cold-Blooded (2004), and Dying for Love (2011).

Reviews

Goodreads review by Fishface on February 03, 2020

Story of what may be an unsolved serial-murder case. Or maybe it's not unsolved. The story bogs down in places because the author errs on the side of telling you every word everybody said...but overall it's a good read that leaves you understanding more about why police go through so much Excedrin.......more

Goodreads review by Marsha on July 29, 2019

Although this whole topic and situation is fascinating and illuminating, I good only get through three quarters of the book due to disorganization and the lack of a consistent timeline (it jumped back and forth with no rhyme or reason) or overall story, conclusions, or goal. I understand that that l......more

Goodreads review by Ronnie on November 08, 2017

This true-crime book by the late Carlton Smith includes a lot of area history and politics. While not completely satisfying, it's better than most books about unsolved cases. The author paints unflattering portraits of the District Attorney, the police investigation, and of New Bedford itself.......more

Goodreads review by Ana-Maria on November 12, 2017

This is a very frustrating story as it gives no answers simply because there are no answers. 11 women from the fringes of society, who also knew each other for the most part, were killed and dumped along highways, but we still don't know why or more importantly who did it. The author introduces us t......more

Goodreads review by Stefanie on April 05, 2025

This book discusses the case of the New Bedford Highway Killer. The person believed to be responsible for the disappearances of two women and the murder of nine women whose bodies were found. The deaths/disappearances occurred between March 1988 and April 1989. All of these women were known to be se......more

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List