Gone at Midnight

The Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam

De: Jake Anderson

Narrado por: Erik Bloomquist

Twenty-one-year-old Vancouver student Elisa Lam was last heard from on January 31, 2013, after she checked into downtown LA's Cecil Hotel - a 600-room building with a nine-decade history of scandal and tragedy. The next day, Elisa vanished. A search of the hotel yielded nothing. More than a week later, complaints by guests of foul-smelling tap water led to a grim discovery: Elisa's nude body floating in a rooftop water tank, in an area extremely difficult to access without setting off alarms. The only apparent clue was a disturbing surveillance video of Elisa, uploaded to YouTube in hopes of public assistance.

As the eerie elevator video went viral, so did the questions of its tens of millions of viewers. Was Elisa's death caused by murder, suicide, or paranormal activity? Was it connected to the Cecil's sinister reputation? And in that video, what accounted for Elisa's strange behavior? With the help of web sleuths and investigators from around the world, journalist Jake Anderson set out to uncover the facts behind a death that had become a macabre internet meme.

In Gone at Midnight, Anderson chronicles eye-opening discoveries about who Elisa Lam really was and what - or whom - she was running from, and presents shocking new evidence that may re-open one of the most chilling and obsessively followed true crime cases of the century.

©2020 Jake Anderson (P)2020 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Brilliantly written

This is a must read. This book will leave you with so many questions about the tragic death Of Elisa Lam. Where have we gone wrong as a society? This book will make you think, it will make you feel and wish you could have been there for Elisa. Thank you to the author Jake Anderson for being so open about his life and caring for another’s.

Excellent

Wonderful coverage of the case/cases and a beautiful insight into the flawedness of the human mind.

Was good when it actually talked about Elisa.

It started strong, but then spent so much time talking about things that had nothing to do with the case, including the author's own personal life. There was some interesting stuff, but ultimately it was so much rambling. Book could have been half it's length.

expertly done!

As complete as the story can be so far, with an exceptional vocabulary and perfectly timed sentencing. The author's candidness is also enjoyable. This whole treatise is an honor to the life and memory of Elisa. Thx for being the first to put together a coherent synthesis of a tremendous amount of details, including concise, condensed accounts of other important personages connected to the Cecil and to Los Angeles. Bravo.....journalism at its finest. The narration also had a perfectly honoring tone to this whole subject. I hope the two pair up again!!

Does justice to Elisa Lam

I feel that this book (author, narrator) really did a good job of respectfully cutting through the BS and hyperbole