From addictive podcasts such as S Town and Untold to must-watch TV from Making a Murderer to The Keepers, true crime is having something of a moment. Now a book that melds memoir and murder to tell a haunting story of abuse, deep-buried secrets and the power of mercy, has become the talk of the publishing industry and is set to be one of the hits of the summer.
The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich weaves together two distinct histories: that of Ricky Langley, a paedophile who was convicted of the murder in 1992 of six-year-old Jeremy Guillory, and Marzano-Lesnevich’s abuse by her late maternal grandfather. Early reviews hail it as “a true crime masterpiece” and compare it to Truman Capote’s seminal In Cold Blood. It was, says Marzano-Lesnevich, a book that she had to write.
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