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The Fact of a Body
What you need to know before your trail
Before Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working on the retrial defence of death-row convicted murderer and child molester, Ricky Langley, she thinks her position is clear. The child of two lawyers, she is staunchly anti death penalty. But the moment Ricky’s face flashes on the screen as she reviews old tapes, the moment she hears him speak of his crimes, she is overcome with the feeling of wanting him to die. Shocked by her reaction, she digs deeper and deeper into the case, realizing that despite their vastly different circumstances, something in his story is unsettlingly, uncannily familiar.
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New Orleans and New Jersey
Two very different people, two very different lives – Ricky Langley, paedophile and child-murderer, and Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich who was a law student when she heard about the case and wanted to look into it further. This is a deeply troubling case so only vague locations have been placed on the map. This is a novel, based on a true life case which will make for uncomfortable reason but it is a look at how people react to crimes, how the past affects the future and how the American legal systems deals with it all.
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Author/Guide Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Destination: New Orleans Departure Time: 1992, 2003
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