THE FACT OF A BODY

ALEXANDRIA MARZANO-LESNEVICH Pan Macmillan

As a law student, the author took pride in her staunch opposition to the death penalty—until she encountered the case of Ricky Langley, a child molester and murderer. As she investigated his crimes, she discovered his story had strange parallels to her own. This memoir/true-crime hybrid stands up to the best of either genre.