Thirteen girls
By: Mikita Brottman
Publisher: Nine-Banded Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Charleston, WV
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9781467521970
Subjects: Teenage girls; Fiction; Crimes against; Murder; Investigation; Case studies
Other titles: 13 girls
Description: THIRTEEN GIRLS is a casebook that plumbs the annals of "true crime," delivering thirteen bracing stories of murder and its emotional fallout. Each fictionalized narrative is based on a real victim of a serial killer, and each is told from a different perspective -- a mother, a shrink, a cop, a sister -- to reveal the stark afterlife of human carnage. Leveraging the emotional power of personal testimony, Mikita Brottman presents an unblinking psychological portrait of murder, a dark descent that illuminates our cultural obsession with violence and the need for "closure" that persists in the hearts and minds of those who live in its wake. - from back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.