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'Dark, compelling and powerful; this is a book of real substance. Ryan David Jahn is a rare and fine talent.'
--R. J. Ellory
'Acts of Violence offers atmospheric insights into our way of life and our refusal to take responsibility.'
--Waterstones Books Quarterly
'This terrific debut was inspired by the true story of Kitty Genovese; her murder in 1964 outside her home in New York was witnessed by neighbours whose alleged lack of response prompted investigation into the phenomenon of "Bystander effect". . .Acts of Violence us a wonderfully visual book - the effect is of watching, unseen, through a dozen different windows as Jahn switches from one scenario to the next. Powerful, compassionate and authentic, it works both as a mystery and as a snapshot of America in the early 1960s.'
--Guardian
'Acts of Violence is a shocking and powerful literary thriller and without doubt, the most outstanding novel I have read this year.'
--It's A Crime!
'Excellent, a superb series of fictional stories.'
--The Times
--R. J. Ellory
'Acts of Violence offers atmospheric insights into our way of life and our refusal to take responsibility.'
--Waterstones Books Quarterly
'This terrific debut was inspired by the true story of Kitty Genovese; her murder in 1964 outside her home in New York was witnessed by neighbours whose alleged lack of response prompted investigation into the phenomenon of "Bystander effect". . .Acts of Violence us a wonderfully visual book - the effect is of watching, unseen, through a dozen different windows as Jahn switches from one scenario to the next. Powerful, compassionate and authentic, it works both as a mystery and as a snapshot of America in the early 1960s.'
--Guardian
'Acts of Violence is a shocking and powerful literary thriller and without doubt, the most outstanding novel I have read this year.'
--It's A Crime!
'Excellent, a superb series of fictional stories.'
--The Times
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Katrina Marino is about to become America’s most infamous murder victim.
This is Katrina’s story, and the story of her killer.
It is also the story of Katrina’s neighbours, those who witnessed her murder and did nothing: the terrified Vietnam draftee; the woman who thinks she’s killed a child, and her husband who will risk everything for the truth; the former soldier planning suicide and the man who saves him. And others whose lives are touched by the crime: the elderly teacher whose past is catching up with him; the amateur blackmailer who’s about to find out just what sort of people he’s been threatening; the corrupt cop who believes he is God’s ‘red right hand’.
Shocking and compassionate, angry and gripping, ACTS OF VIOLENCE is a sprawling, cinematic tour-de-force, a terrifying crime novel unlike any other.
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