Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders

Journalist Billy Jensen has built his career on solving cold case murders, often using information found on social media and in other places the police don’t think to look. When detectives have no answers, they call Billy, the world’s first digital ‘consulting detective.’

Step inside the world of true crime as Billy solves the Halloween Mask Murder, finds a murder/fugitive hiding out in Mexico, and investigates the only other murder in New York City on 9/11. Readers will also follow Billy closely as he helps finish Michelle McNamara’s #1 New York Times bestseller I’ll Be Gone In the Dark, after her sudden death.

Full of twists, turns, and rabbit holes, Chase Darkness with Me allows readers to ride shotgun with Billy as he uses groundbreaking techniques to identify the criminals behind seemingly unsolvable murders.

‘A breakthrough crime narrative…Billy focuses on the monsters walking among us today, showing us how technology, teamwork, and an unwillingness to let evil win represents the future of criminal investigations.’ - John Douglas, former chief of FBI’s Investigative Supportive Support Unit and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit

‘An intense, fascinating read for true crime lovers and newbies!’ - Patton Oswalt