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The Book Show #1518 - Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published August 22, 2017 at 3:00 PM EDT
Book Cover - The Fact Of A Body

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich’s new book, The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, is inspired by her time at a law firm in Louisiana working on the retrial defense of death-row convicted murderer and child molester Ricky Langley. She shows how ''the law is more personal than we would like to believe and the truth more complicated, and powerful, than we could ever imagine.''
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