I met the author, Tom Basinski, at The Southern California Writers conference in 2009, when I attended his workshop, the content of which was so compelling I bought his book. Cross Country Evil is a true story of a crime that had detectives baffled for more than a decade. Quite by chance, things change after a chance traffic stop thousands of miles away. I really felt for the victims in this book, even though many of them were prostitutes and often don't get much respect or sympathy when bad things happen to them. Thoroughly recommend this book.