Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy

Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy

A masterful, revelatory work of literary non-fiction about a teenage girl's shocking crime--and its extraordinary aftermath

On a spring afternoon in 1985 in Gary, Indiana, a fifteen-year-old girl kill…

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