Hidden Valley Road
- 335 pages
- 12 hours of reading
The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease.
Robert Kolker Books
This author explores intricate family dynamics and the dark secrets that can lie beneath the surface. Through meticulous research and compelling narrative, they uncover profound human drama and ethical quandaries. Their work prompts reflection on the nature of memory, identity, and what it means to be human. Readers are drawn into stories that are both unsettling and deeply moving.
A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of 2013 Award-winning investigative reporter Robert Kolker delivers a humanizing account of the true-life search for a serial killer still at large on Long Island, and presents the first detailed look at the shadow world of online escorts, where making a living is easier than ever and the dangers remain all too real. A triumph of reporting, a riveting narrative, and "a lashing critique of how society and the police let five young women down" (Dwight Garner, New York Times), Lost Girls is a portrait of unsolved murders in an idyllic part of America, of the underside of the Internet, and of the secrets we keep without admitting to ourselves that we keep them.