Book Review: Trailed

 

Trailed

One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

by Kathryn Miles

Pub Date 03 May 2022

Algonquin Books

True Crime

Aloquin Books provided me with a copy of Trailed for review

According to the author, the majority of back trail murder victims are women, despite them being the minority in these locations. She shares her quest to solve the Shenandoah Murders.

Surely they were followed. This is the thought I return to after all these years.

 

In May 1996, two backcountry experts, Lollie Winans and Julie Williams, camped in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park for a week. They met and fell in love while working at a world-renowned outdoor program for women the previous summer. During their final days in the park, they pitched their tent in a hidden location along a narrow remnant of a trail. The pair failed to return home as planned, so park rangers found their tent slashed open, their dog missing, and both women dead in their sleeping bags. All who knew or encountered Winans and Williams remain haunted by their unsolved murders.

Kathryn Miles, an award-winning journalist and outdoors expert, investigates the case and discovers conflicting evidence, mismatched timelines, and details that don't add up. Having unprecedented access to crime-scene forensics and key witnesses, as well as a growing sense of mission and obsession, she begins to uncover the truth.  Miles believes an innocent man has been under suspicion for decades while the true culprit is a serial killer.

Trailed is an intimate, page-turning, and brilliantly reported story about love, justice, and a plea to make wilderness a safe space for women destined to become a true crime classic.

I give Trailed four out of five stars!

Happy Reading!