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.