The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City

"A haunted, haunting examination of mental illness and murder in a more or less ordinary American city...Mature and thoughtful...A Helter Skelter for our time, though without a hint of sensationalism-unsettling in the extreme but written with confidence and deep empathy" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texas-one of America's poorest cities-John Allen Rubio and Angela Camacho murdered their three young children. The apartment building in which the brutal c...