SPOKEN IN DARKNESS: SMALL-TOWN MURDER AND A FRIENDSHIP BEYOND DEATH | 
| Author: Ann Imbrie
Publisher: Hyperion
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 1181710
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 261
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 1
ISBN: 1562828428
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.1523092
EAN: 9781562828424
ASIN: 1562828428
Publication Date: May 14, 1993
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Product Description
A mesmerizing re-creation of a lost life: that of the author's junior-high school best friend, murdered by a psychotic serial killer. The story combines the crime with personal journey.
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 A Truly Soulful Book February 13, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a difficult book to describe. Although it is classified as such, it is not at all "true crime" and those who are looking for strict true crime will be disappointed.
Ann Imbrie's "Spoken In Darkness" is basically the author's search for the memory of a murdered friend, both externally through research which includes courthouse searches and interviews; and, to a greater degree, through her own memories of her friend, Lee Snavely. The author was best friends with Lee for only a couple of years, but when she heard Lee had been killed she began her search, and in doing so she beautifully and honestly uses the experience to also examine her own childhood and her relationship with her parents, and to contrast that childhood with Lee Snavely's in an attempt to explain to herself how a friend she truly loved could end up so differently from herself - Lee a murdered prostitute; Imbrie a college professor. And, in fact, the book is at least as much about the author and her emotions as she remembers her friend as it is about the friend herself.
This is a highly literate work written at an unusual level of tenderness and honesty. Lee Snavely's murder, and some of her adult life, are described by Imbrie only as products of her imagination. This does not at all detract from the purpose of the book, which is to a great degree more emotional than factual. The pain in Imbrie's writing about Lee Snavely's childhood is palpable and explains why Lee's life unfolded as it did.
"Spoken In Darkness" is a truly soulful book.
 Sad, Shocking and Hard to Put Down December 27, 2005
Overall I really liked Imbrie's telling of this awful crime. When a book makes me feel like I am actually there I am impressed. I often read true crime accounts and sympathize with the victims, but Imbrie's writing really gave me that eerie feeling like Lee could have been any one of us. I think her writing style is different and I really liked the book.
 A good book to check out of the library February 26, 2001
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
The book is touching, I'll give Ann Imbrie that, but really, she doesn't have enough material to warrent a full length book. Because she lacks many facts, she invents what she doesn't know and does a good job doing it, but the book should be marketed as such i.e. it is really about her feelings and reminisces of her dead friend, not what happened to her. An excellent book to borrow from a friend, check out from the library, or purchase used, but i wouldn't pay full price for it.
listed in another book also December 18, 2000
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have not read this book as it is out of stock and I just found out about it but this crime is in Ann Rule's book You Belong to me, if someone wants to read about the killer Gary Taylor.
Spoken in Darkness May 24, 2000
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed reading the book. I am an eighth grader at Bowling Green Junior High. I felt like I understood alot about the Lee and that I could relate to some of her problems. I thought that the book was wonderful. Thank you Ann Imbrie!
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