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  • When the Night Comes Falling

  • A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders
  • By: Howard Blum
  • Narrated by: Zac Aleman
  • Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (303 ratings)

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When the Night Comes Falling

By: Howard Blum
Narrated by: Zac Aleman
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Publisher's summary

"Blum capably maintains the suspense and thoughtfully probes into the motives of key players in this intriguing yet profoundly unsettling story. A compelling true-crime book."Kirkus Reviews

The definitive inside story of the Idaho murders from bestselling author Howard Blum, whose groundbreaking coverage of the story was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

Timed for a trial that will capture national attention, When the Night Comes Falling examines the mysterious murders of the four University of Idaho students. Having covered this case from its start, Edgar award winning investigative reporter Howard Blum takes listeners behind the scenes of the police manhunt that eventually led to suspected killer, Bryan Christopher Kohberger, and uncovered larger, lurid questions within this unthinkable tragedy.

Reminiscent of the panoramic portraiture of In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song, When the Night Comes Falling offers a suspenseful, richly detailed narrative that will have listeners transfixed.

©2024 Howard Blum (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers
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captivating information

The storyline kept my attention the entire length of the book, also I learned alot more about the case.

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Excellent telling of the facts

This makes a good audiobook. Very well researched. I like that it considers so many points of view.

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Wow! Great read!

My only complaint is it was too short-I was mesmerized and learnt so much!

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Deeper Look at the Idaho Killer

This is an important book for those who want to take a deeper look into the Idaho student murders and the information about the alleged killer and his background. I think the performance was well done.

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Accurate, Fascinating and Eye-Opening!

The book covers very accurately details that are well known as well as reveals many unknowns in this case. I’ve been following this case anxiously awaiting for the trial to begin and hoping for new information. This book went over many well known details to refresh my memory but also introduced some new details that I hadn’t known about Bryan Kohberger. I highly recommend it!

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Nothing new-but good

No real new information was in this book, but it was from an interesting point of view and really put you into the minds of everyone involved. Such a sad and tragic story.

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excellent as always!!

I'm glad I bought this! very informative! thank u Howard! I will definitely listen again! and probably 20 more times!

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Well researched

The author painstakingly went through all the information available both in the media online and privately with confidential sources. The book was well written well, researched, very detailed and the most resourceful count of these tragedies. I first learned the book from Nancy Grace, who spoke glowingly about the author highly recommend this book a must read.

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Weird references

I could have done without the repeated references to what the victims were wearing. There wasn’t an obvious reason to mention their attire (skirt length, etc…) apart from some strange victim blaming. I can’t arrive at any other reason but maybe I missed something.

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It was okay

I didn't really learn anything new from this book and it felt like the female victims were objectified not just by the killer but also by the Author.

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