The real story behind the murder of the Manhattan schoolteacher that became a symbol of the dangers of casual sex: ‘A first-rate achievement’ (Truman Capote).

In 1973, Roseann Quinn, an Irish-Catholic teacher at a college for deaf children, was killed in NEW YORK after bringing a man house to her apartment from an Upper West Side pub. The crime made headlines as well as the ensuing case quickly developed into a social trend, spawning both a #1 New York Times–bestselling book and a film about Closing Time: The True Story of the ‘Searching for Mr. Goodbar’ Murder version starring Diane Keaton and Richard Gere, and sparking debates about the intimate revolution and the perils of the ‘pickup scene’ at what had been popularly known as singles bars.

In this groundbreaking true crime tale, Lacey Fosburgh, the brand new York Times reporter first assigned towards the tale, utilizes an inventive dramatization technique, in which she provides victim a different name, to veer between the chilling, suspenseful personal relationships before the brutal stabbing as well as the gritty information on its aftermath, like the NYPD investigation as well as the arrest of John Wayne Wilson.

An Edgar Award finalist for Best Reality Crime, this vintage from the genre is ‘even more riveting, and more tragic, than the Judith Rossner book—and 1977 film Looking for Mr. Goodbar’ (Men’s Journal).