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Jillian Lauren had no idea what she was getting into when she wrote her first letter to prolific serial killer Samuel Little. All she knew was her research had led her to believe he was good for far more murders than the three for which he had been convicted. While the two exchanged dozens of letters and embarked on hundreds of hours of interviews, Lauren gained the trust of a monster. After maintaining his innocence for decades, Little confessed to the murders of ninety-three women, often drawing his victims in haunting detail as he spoke. How could one man evade justice, manipulating the system for over four decades? As the FBI, the DOJ, the LAPD, and countless law enforcement officials across the country worked to connect their cold cases with the confessions, Lauren's coverage of the investigations and obsession with Little's victims only escalated. New York Times bestselling author and lead of the Starz docuseries Confronting a Serial Killer Jillian Lauren delivers the harrowing report of her unusual relationship with a psychopath. But this is more than a deep dive into the actions of Samuel Little. Lauren's riveting and emotional accounts reveal the women who were lost to cold files, giving Little's victims a chance to have their stories heard for the first time.

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"""Behold the Monster looks straight into the face of pure evil and doesn't blink...A journey into a darkness that is almost unfathomable; as well as an indictment of a failed justice system and the social decay that created a serial killer in the first place. Utterly gripping."" -- ""Janelle Brown, New York Times bestselling author"" ""A true crime confessional...This story introduces us to scores of victims, previously unknown and unnamed. Women whom society forgot...but their killer never did. Lauren brings them into the light."" -- ""Charlie Graeber, author of The Good Nurse"" ""A unique and disturbing thrill ride."" -- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""Sam Little is the monster in this story and Jillian Lauren is the slayer. She is the one who stuck her nose into it, saw something was not right, was dreadfully wrong, in fact, and did something about it."" -- ""Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author"" ""This is a hard book to read and even harder to put down."" -- ""Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author"""

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Jillian Lauren is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Some Girls and the novel Pretty. Jillian holds an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University, and her writing has appeared in the Paris Review, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and other publications. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their son. Michael Connelly is the author of twenty-nine previous novels, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers The Wrong Side of Goodbye and The Crossing. His books, which include the Harry Bosch and Lincoln Lawyer series, have sold more than sixty million copies worldwide. Connelly is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels and is the executive producer of Bosch, starring Titus Welliver. He spends his time in California and Florida. Nikki Zakocs lives in sunny Arizona, where she records in her professional home studio. A love of learning, reading, and the arts has created her passion for narrating books. With a master's degree in education and literacy, she spent many years reading to her students, many of whom were English language learners. Nikki is passionate about education, child advocacy, and a true animal lover with a home full of pets. When she is not a party of one in a small padded room, she enjoys travel, photography, and a good cup of coffee with a piece of cake.

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