Acts of ViolenceKatrina Marino is about to become Americas most infamous murder victim. This is Katrinas story, and the story of her killer. It is also the story of Katrinas neighbours, those who witnessed her murder and did nothing: the terrified Vietnam draftee; the woman who thinks shes 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

The derelict community centre is on fire

where all the threads of this brilliantly told novel come together

the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over-especially as the offspring of the legendary singer

to whom the authorities had always turned when disorder threatened

all Marcel knows about her is that she has just been released from the prison at Namur

divides families and breeds treachery

found washed ashore after a great storm

And Banks realizes that his cases are weaving closer and closer together

the rights and wrongs of the cause mean little

inconvenient son out of the country

What if the life you're chasing is the one you left behind

arrives penniless to visit his friend and hero