Violent ACT

Alec Wilkinson, A. Wilkinson. Vintage Books USA, $15 (240pp) ISBN 978-0-679-74982-0

New Yorker writer Wilkinson chronicles an ex-convict's murder of his probation officer and subsequent rampage across rural Missouri. (Mar.)

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