How long does it take to read Who Killed These Girls??
Beverly Lowry
Who Killed These Girls? by Beverly Lowry takes about 8 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 18 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2016. 453 pages, about 124,575 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"From the author of Crossed Over, another masterful account of a horrible crime: the murder of four girls, countless other ruined lives, and the evolving complications of the justice system that frustrated the massive attempts--for twenty-five years now--to find and punish those who committed it. The facts are brutally straightforward. On December 6, 1991, the naked, bound-and-gagged bodies of the four girls--each one shot in the head--were found in an I Can't Believe It's Yogurt! shop in Austin, Texas. Grief, shock, and horror spread out from their families and friends to overtake the city itself. Though all branches of law enforcement were brought to bear, the investigation was often misdirected and after eight years only two men (then teenagers) were tried; moreover, their subsequent convictions were eventually overturned, and Austin PD detectives are still working on what is now a very cold case. Over the decades, the story has grown to include DNA technology, false confessions, and other developments facing crime and punishment in contemporary life. But this story belongs to the scores of people involved, and from them Lowry has fashioned a riveting saga that reads like a Russian novel, comprehensive and thoroughly engrossing"--
Subjects: Murder, Investigation, Cold cases (Criminal investigation), Case studies, TRUE CRIME, SOCIAL SCIENCE
