Elena Alonso-Mira

And that's all she knew.

And when she first read it, she thought, hmm, okay, well, I'm going to go to that town and I'm going to talk to the killer because I think this is going to be really interesting and I'm going to write some sort of Truman Capote sort of version.

But then she was just like, wait a minute, I'm a freelance journalist.

I don't have a cent to my name.

That place is really dangerous.

I could get killed there.

In fact, the journalist that first wrote the note had been killed.

So she thought about it twice, and she said, well, what are the chances that I actually will get to talk to the killer?

That's going to be incredibly expensive to buy the police to let me go into it and talk to him.

And again, I'm also risking my life.

Like, what's the point of this?

So she thought, all right, I'll imagine it.

I'll go into this character's head, and I'll write it.

And I actually think that it came out better than it would have if she'd had

She had been trying to get the actual truth out of them.

So basically the book is broken into eight chapters and each chapter has one paragraph, one long paragraph.

They're basically not full stops where you can move on.

And one paragraph can last up to 60 pages.

But some chapters are really short.

It depends.