Lysiak, a reporter for the New York Daily News, obtained the emails earlier this year for a big story on Lanza’s history of mental illness. And the initial description suggests that the book will keep that focus on getting inside the mind of Lanza:
Drawing on hundreds of interviews and a decade’s worth of emails from Lanza’s mother to close friends that chronicled his slow slide into mental illness, Newtown pieces together the perfect storm that led to this unspeakable act of violence that shattered so many lives.
Lanza’s dark descent from a young boy with adjustment disorders to a calculating killer is interwoven with the Newtown massacre as it unfolded at the time, told from the points of view of eye witnesses, survivors, parents of victims, first responders, and Adam’s relatives.
The book is expected to be released December 10.