The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace

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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
416 pages; Scribner
The True Story You'll Never Forget

Despite growing up in crime-ridden Newark, New Jersey, with a devoted but overworked mom and his father in prison for murder, Robert Peace managed to graduate from Yale. Which makes his brutal, drug-related murder all the more heartbreaking.
— Sarah Meyer