![]() ![]() “Since part of the novel centers on a 20-year-old case, using podcast transcripts allowed me to explore what life was like in this community under attack by a serial killer without resorting to flashbacks of backstory. ![]() “I love using nontraditional forms of writing in my novels to reveal plot and character in interesting ways,” she says. She had hoped her investigation would lay that suspicion to rest, but instead, her podcast seems to be creating new victims.Ĭlarke deftly balances the narrative in traditional prose and the language of a podcast. While media and law enforcement long ago concluded that TCK was dead, Elle has never believed it. Then, within days, a child is abducted-a young girl who seems to fit suspiciously into the TCK sequence. ![]() When Elle follows up on a listener tip only to discover the man’s dead body, she feels at fault. ![]() But after he took his 11-year-old victim, the pattern-and the murders-abruptly stopped. In her latest season, she’s going after the Countdown Killer, a madman who terrorized the community 20 years ago, kidnapping and ritualistically murdering three girls over seven days, each a year younger than the last. In GIRL, 11, debut author Amy Suiter Clarke introduces former social worker Elle Castillo, the host of a popular true crime podcast investigating cold cases of missing or murdered children in Minnesota’s Twin Cities. ![]()
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