Under the Bridge

Author(s): Rebecca Godfrey

Crime & Punishment

'Both tragic and cathartic' New York Times

British Columbia, 1997.

Under the Bridge traces the events surrounding the 1997 murder of fourteen-year-old Reena Virk by eight of her peers, in an account based on six years of research and interviews with the accused that offers insight into the social tensions that provoked the crime and the minds of teenage killers. By the author of The Torn Skirt.

PRAISE FOR UNDER THE BRIDGE

'A tour-de-force of true crime reportage' Kirkus Reviews

'A swift, harrowing classic' Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation

'Mixes novelistic suspense with a journalist's key eye for detail' Bustle

'Hypnotic, obsessive, wonderfully transformative' John Guare, author of Six Degrees of Separation


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  • : 9781399811002
  • : John Murray Press
  • : John Murray Publishers Ltd
  • : 480.0
  • : 01 November 2023
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  • : Rebecca Godfrey
  • : Paperback
  • : English
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