With modern technology doing so much to improve the choices in entertainment available to the modern consumer, we now have a world in which audio and video standards have risen way in advance of what was available to previous generations.

The quality of the recordings on modern digital audio and video media is far superior to that of the analog past.

Not only that, but the small size of modern media players, and their batteries, means that the modern consumer has so many more options as to where they choose to enjoy their media files.

Not only have the options available to audio and video consumers become ever greater, but even users of the printed word now have vastly improved choices.

With the availability of books recording in speech format, consumers can now enjoy books without having to read, or strain their eyes.

One of the sets of books now available in audio format is a set of digitally downloadable True Crime Audiobooks.

Among this series is a book chronicling the sickeningly evil deeds of the most notorious and prolific of all of America's serial killers, the Green River Killer Gary Ridgway.

Ridgway is the murderer responsible for the murders of at least forty eight women in the State of Washington.

This book, called “Green River, Running Red”, is written by the well known and prolific journalist Ann Rule. Ann Rule lived, and raised her children, only a mile or so from a place where some of the corpses of Ridgway's victims were found. It transpired later that Ridgway had actually attended some of Ann Rule's book signings!

Rule herself was working as a journalist for one of the Seattle newspapers at the time of the murders, and ended up covering the story of the search for the killer.

Ridgway's victims were mainly teenage runaway girls who had fallen into prostitution just to try and survive.

This book deals with the lives of the tragic women whose lives fell into despair, with humanity and sympathy. It also tries to analyse what drove Ridgway to commit these atrocities, but in this it can never quite succeed.

On the face of it Ridgway was unremarkable, as so many serial killers turn out to be once they are unmasked.

The book does try to consider how, when Ridgway had been on the suspects list since 1983, he was not arrested until 2001.

It was only when DNA from four of the victims was matched against a sample that Ridgway had provided back in 1987 that there was enough proof to convict.

Many words have been written concerning the Green River Killer. Few carry as much insight as those from a professional true crime journalist who lived in the area, which can now be enjoyed as a True Crime Audiobook.