Writing style
Descriptive · Direct · Journalistic
Apple BooksThe night stalker
True crime
- First published
- 1996
- Print length
- 592 pagesPinnacle Books, 1997
Description
Philip Carlo’s The Night Stalker presents an account of serial murderer Richard Ramirez built around unusually extensive access to its subject. Carlo draws on sixty hours of personal interviews with Ramirez, making those conversations a central source for the book. A later edition expands the available material with interviews involving women who sought contact with Ramirez, as well as an interview conducted while he was on death row. The account is distinguished by its substantial interview base and by supplementary conversations that add other voices alongside Carlo’s direct exchanges with Ramirez.
Reading profile
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Pace
Moderate
Tone
Dark · Detached · Frightening · Unsettling
Structure
Chronological nonfiction
Focus
Character · Information
Emotional intensity
5 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 3 / 5
- Ideas
- 3 / 5
- Structure
- 3 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 1 / 5
Themes
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- Pinnacle Books
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780786018109
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