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"A splendid reporter, and even better writer.-- ""Diane McWhorter, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Carry Me Home"" Her verbs pulsate, her narrative web sucks you in. Mostly, Cross makes you care.-- ""Beth Macy, New York Times-bestselling author of Factory Man"" Kim Cross could teach of few novelists about how to tell a gripping, spell-binding, heart-wrenching tale.-- ""Clarion-Ledger"" 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"" Riveting... reported with empathy and Cross's signature combination of unflinching detail and gut-punching revelations.-- ""Beth Macy author of Dopesick and Raising Lazarus"" Searing...a riveting tale that demonstrates the investigation's effect on solving cases even three decades later.-- ""Kirkus"" 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"" 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 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"" 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 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 The Polly Klaas kidnapping haunted my childhood. Now, thanks to Kim Cross's thoughtful, and deeply sourced book, I have a much richer understanding of this heartbreaking case, and its profound and lasting impact. In Light of All Darkness is a gripping look into a police investigation, a community galvanized by grief, and the girl at the center of it all."" --Rachel Monroe, author of Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession. 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"" ""Riveting...reported with empathy and Cross's signature combination of unflinching detail and gut-punching revelations."" -- ""Beth Macy, New York Times bestselling author"" ""Searing...a riveting tale that demonstrates the investigation's effect on solving cases even three decades later."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews"""

"A splendid reporter, and even better writer.-- ""Diane McWhorter, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Carry Me Home"" Her verbs pulsate, her narrative web sucks you in. Mostly, Cross makes you care.-- ""Beth Macy, New York Times-bestselling author of Factory Man"" Kim Cross could teach of few novelists about how to tell a gripping, spell-binding, heart-wrenching tale.-- ""Clarion-Ledger"" 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"" Riveting... reported with empathy and Cross's signature combination of unflinching detail and gut-punching revelations.-- ""Beth Macy author of Dopesick and Raising Lazarus"" 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"" 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"" 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 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 The Polly Klaas kidnapping haunted my childhood. Now, thanks to Kim Cross's thoughtful, and deeply sourced book, I have a much richer understanding of this heartbreaking case, and its profound and lasting impact. In Light of All Darkness is a gripping look into a police investigation, a community galvanized by grief, and the girl at the center of it all."" --Rachel Monroe, author of Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession. 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"""

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"Kim Cross is a New York Times bestselling author, journalist, and historian known for meticulously reported narrative nonfiction. Her stories have been recognized in ""Best of"" lists by the New York Times, the Columbia Journalism Review, The Sunday Long Read, Longform, Apple News Audio, and Best American Sports Writing. She lives in Boise, Idaho. Lisa Flanagan is a classically trained soprano, comedian, voice-over artist, and Earphones Award-winning narrator."

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