This memoir reflects the author’s life faithfully rendered to the best of her ability. Some names and identifying details have been changed to protect the privacy of others.
Copyright © 2017 by Leah Carroll
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Jacket photograph by Joan Goldman Carroll
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Carroll, Leah, author.
Title: Down city : a daughter’s story of love, memory, and murder / Leah Carroll.
Description: First Edition. | New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016029300
Subjects: LCSH: Carroll, Leah. | Murder—Rhode Island. | Drug abuse and crime—Rhode Island. | BISAC: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
Classification: LCC HV6533.R4 C37 2017 | DDC 361.452/3092—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016029300
ISBNs: 978-1-4555-6331-9 (hardcover), 978-1-4789-0484-7 (audiobook downloadable), 978-1-4555-6330-2 (ebook)
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