by Amber Hunt
First published 2011
Yeardley Love had everything going for her at the University of Virginia. The lacrosse star excelled in her studies and earned respect from teammates through her modest, generous nature. Her relationship with George Huguely V made them a power couple on campus. Both were champion athletes from privileged backgrounds. But George's drinking and jealous outbursts pushed Yeardley away. One month before graduation, someone found her dead in her apartment. George admitted to police that he broke down her door and slammed her head into the wall. His defense team called it an accident. Investigators discovered a different story. George had committed at least two previous alcohol-related assaults. Police saw him as violence waiting to happen. Hunt traces how two promising young lives collided in tragedy, examining the warning signs that preceded one fatal night.
Genres: crime, non-fiction, biography-memoir, true-crime
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
Setting: University of Virginia
Period: 2010s
260 pages · Paperback · Saint Martins True Crime
Content warnings: alcohol-abuse, domestic-violence, violence