Act of Violence Author:Margaret Yorke On a quiet evening in the quiet English town of Deerton, violence erupts when four boys invade the home of schoolmate Barry Noakes, where Barry and three other friends (Jamie, Peter and Greg ) are settling in for a night of videos and pizza. As the ruffians begin trashing the house, Jamie runs to a neighbor, Daniel Stewart, for help. The melee s... more »preads outside; Jamie is cut and the helpful neighbor is killed. Out of fear of retaliation, none of the four innocent boys dares to "grass on" (implicate) the troublemakers. Woven into the narrative is the first-person account of a woman who murdered the wife of her lover years ago, served time and has since put herself in practice as a counselor.« less