Monster City: Murder, Music, and Mayhem in Nashville’s Dark Age
Written by Michael Arntfield
Narrated by Jonathan Davis
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About this audiobook
The never-before-told true account of the serial killers who terrorized Nashville’s music scene for decades—and the cold-case Murder Squad determined to bring an end to their sadistic sprees.
Nashville—a haven for aspiring musicians and a magnet for country-music fans. By the time Pat Postiglione arrived there in 1980, it was also the scene of an unsolved series of vicious sex slayings that served as a harbinger of worse to come. As Postiglione was promoted from street-beat Metro cop to detective sergeant heading Music City’s elite cold-case Murder Squad, some of America’s most bizarre, elusive, and savage serial killers were calling Nashville home. And during the next two decades, the body count climbed.
From Vanderbilt University to dive bars and out-of-the-way motels, Postiglione followed the bloody tracks of these ever-escalating crimes—each enacted by a different psychopath with the same intent: to murder without motive or remorse. But of all the investigations, of all the monsters Postiglione chased, few were as chilling, or as game changing, as the Rest Stop Killer: a homicidal trucker who turned the interstates into his trolling ground. Next stop, Nashville. But Postiglione was waiting.
Michael Arntfield
MICHAEL ARNTFIELD is a cop-turned-criminologist and professor at Western University, where he founded the Cold Case Society, an unsolved-crimes college think tank. He is also a director with the Murder Accountability Project in Washington, DC, has served as a visiting professor at Vanderbilt University and has trained police around the world on cold case serial homicides, including as a speaker at the FBI Academy in Quantico. The author of over a dozen true crime books and criminology textbooks, he makes regular appearances on the Discovery Channel, Investigation Discovery and Oxygen, and is a staple expert on crime in both American and Canadian media. Visit him at michaelarntfield.com.
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Reviews for Monster City
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Horrible book! Takes hours before you hear about the murders! The author rambles on about everything except the main story!!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I absolutely loved this novel .. it had me hooked from the very beginning!! I hope you all enjoy this book as I have!