HBO Has Acquired The Rights To Michelle McNamara’s True Crime Book

HBO Documentary Films announced Monday that is has acquired the rights to Michelle McNamara’s true-crime book I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, which debuted earlier this year at number one on the New York Times bestseller list. The late wife of Patton Oswalt, McNamara passed away before she could finish her work on the book, which was eventually completed by her lead researcher Paul Haynes, and another close colleague Billy Jenkins.