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; and 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.

From the author of the award-winning debut crime novel "Good Neighbors"-a white-knuckle thriller about the lengths a man will go to for his daughter.

" The phone rings. It's your daughter. She's been dead for four months. "

So begins East Texas police dispatcher Ian Hunt's fight to get his daughter back. The call is cut off by the man who snatched her from her bedroom seven years ago, and a basic description of the kidnapper is all Ian has to go on. What follows is a bullet-strewn cross-country chase from Texas to California along Interstate 10- a wild ride in a 1965 Mustang that passes through the outlaw territory of "No Country for Old Men" and is shot through with moments of macabre violence that call to mind the novels of Thomas Harris.

A compulsively readable debut crime novel inspired by the legendary real-life murder of Kitty Genovese.
At 4:00 A.M. on March 13, 1964, a young woman returning home from her shift at a local bar is attacked in the courtyard of her Queens apartment building. Her neighbors hear her cries; no one calls for help.
Unfolding over the course of two hours, "Good Neighbors" is the story of the woman's last night. It is also the story of her neighbors, the bystanders who kept to themselves: the anxious Vietnam draftee; the former soldier planning suicide; the woman who thinks she's killed a child and her husband, who will risk everything for her. Revealing a fascinating cross-section of American society in expertly interlocking plotlines, "Good Neighbors" calls to mind the Oscar-winning movie "Crash," and its suspense and profound sense of urban menace rank it with Hitchcock's "Rear Window" and the gritty crime novels of Dennis Lehane, Richard Price, and James Ellroy.