Publisher: Nine-Banded Books

Perfect binding, 5 x 8, 172 pp.
Release date: June, 2012
Price: $12.00
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Thirteen Girls is a casebook of murder that plumbs the annals of violent crime, delivering thirteen bracing stories about its emotional fallout. Each fictionalized narrative is based on a real victim of a serial killer, and each is told from a different perspective – a mother, a shrink, a cop, a sister – to reveal the afterlife of murder through the people it affects most deeply. Stacked against the emotional power of personal testimony, this is a psychological portrait of murder, an unblinking descent that illuminates a cultural obsession with violence and the need for “closure” that persists in the hearts and minds of those who live in its wake.