Down City: A Daughter's Story of Love, Memory, and Murder

Down City is a memoir by Leah Carroll, who recounts her heartbreaking and complex tale of growing up as the daughter of a drug addict mother who was murdered and an alcoholic father who succumbed to his own demons. The book explores the haunting past of a family caught in the web of Rhode Island’s criminal underworld, and the personal journey of a woman trying to make sense of her parents' troubled lives.