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Title: More fiction than fact
Review: Although Gilmore's suspect Wilson is very believable, especially his state of mind in the "missing" tapes, and what you would expect to be the criminal psychopathology behind this kind of depraved crime, there are too many holes in his theory. E.g., Wilson had no car to move the body, and there is conveniently no mention of whether Wilson's fingerprints were ever compared with those from the related Bauerdorf murder lightbulb. And the device at the end (a new narrative voice, a hypothetical journalist interviewing Wilson) doesn't work once you find out (possible only from other sources, e.g., crime websites) that it was the author himself who (claimed to have?) conducted the interviews. There was no reason for this confusing voice-change device, which amounts only to another fictional layer behind which Gilmore can hide. I want either all truth or admitted fiction: this mixes both in a confusing and unsuccessful way.
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