How long does it take to read Green River, Running Red?
The Real Story of the Green River Killer--Americas Deadliest Serial Murderer
Green River, Running Red by Ann Rule takes about 9 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 14 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2004. 504 pages, about 138,600 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 47 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Ann Rule has spent more than two decades researching the story of the Green River Killer, who murdered more than forty-nine young women. The quest to discover the most prolific serial killer in American history has been an intimate part of Rule's life, with some of the corpses found only a mile or so from where she lived and raised her own daughters. She did not know the killer, but he apparently knew her and attended many of her book signings." "For twenty-one years, the killer carried out his self-described "career" as a killing machine, ridding the world of women he considered evil. His eerie ability to lure his victims to their deaths and hide their bodies made him far more dangerous than any infamous multiple murderer in the annals of crime." "A few men - including a law student, a truck painter, and a taxi driver - eventually emerged as the prime suspects among an unprecedented forty thousand scrutinized by the Green River Task Force. Still, there was no physical evidence linking any of them to the murders until 2001, when investigators used a new DNA process on a saliva sample they had preserved since 1987, with stunning results." "When finally apprehended and convicted, the killer made a detailed confession - of his twisted sexual obsessions - that will shock even the most jaded reader. Green River, Running Red is a harrowing account of a modern monster, a killer who walked among us undetected. It is also the story of his quarry - of who these young women were and who they might have become."--BOOK JACKET
Subjects: Rapists, Serial murders, Case studies, Serial murderers, Biography, Washington (state), biography
