When law student Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is asked to work on a death-row hearing for convicted murderer and child molester Ricky Langley, they find themself thrust into the tangled story of his childhood. As they dig deeper and deeper into the case, they realizes that, despite their vastly different circumstances, something in his story is unsettlingly, uncannily familiar.

The Fact of a Body is both an enthralling memoir and a groundbreaking, heart-stopping investigation into how the law is personal, composed of individual stories, and proof that arriving at the truth is more complicated, and powerful, than we could ever imagine.