When the Night Comes Falling: The Definitive True Crime Investigation into the Idaho Student Murders - Softcover

Blum, Howard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0063349299 ISBN 13: 9780063349292

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2025

Synopsis

Instant New York Times Bestseller

“Compelling. . . . Blum capably maintains the suspense and thoughtfully probes into the motives of key players in this intriguing yet profoundly unsettling story.”—Kirkus Reviews

From the bestselling author of The Spy Who Knew Too Much and American Lightning comes the definitive true crime account of the Idaho student murders—an updated paperback edition in time for the long-anticipated trial. 

Timed for a trial that will capture national attention, When the Night Comes Falling examines the mysterious murders of the four University of Idaho students in a gripping college town crime narrative. Having covered this case from its start, Edgar award winning investigative reporter Howard Blum takes readers behind the scenes of the intense police manhunt that eventually led to suspected killer, Bryan Christopher Kohberger, and uncovered larger, lurid questions within this unthinkable tragedy.

Reminiscent of the panoramic portraiture of In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song, When the Night Comes Falling  offers a suspenseful, richly detailed narrative grounded in meticulous investigative journalism that will have readers transfixed.  

This definitive account takes you inside one of the most followed true crime cases in recent memory:

• The Complete Timeline: Follow investigative reporter Howard Blum from the night of the murders to the national police manhunt that captured a nation’s attention.
• Exclusive Investigation: Go behind the scenes with law enforcement as they piece together clues from a crime scene that left even seasoned detectives profoundly unsettled.
• The Suspect in Focus: Delve into the background of Bryan Christopher Kohberger, the PhD candidate in criminal justice who became the primary suspect in an unthinkable tragedy.
• Meticulous Forensic Detail: Discover how a single piece of DNA evidence found on a knife sheath broke the case open, in a narrative reminiscent of classic true crime like In Cold Blood.

About this title

About the Author

With the publication more than fifty years ago of the acclaimed Wanted! The Search for Nazis in America, Howard Blum, a former investigative reporter for the New York Times, established himself as a bestselling author of carefully reported and page-turning nonfiction works. Among his many bestsellers are American Lightning, Dark Invasion, The Last Goodnight, and The Spy Who Knew Too Much. Several of his books are being developed as films, including When the Night Comes Falling, which is being produced as a dramatic series by Village Roadshow Productions. The father of three adult children, he divides his time between a small town in Connecticut and East Hampton, New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0063349299
• ISBN 13: 9780063349292
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256