London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth

Journalist Radden Keefe’s narrative nonfiction delves into London’s criminal underworld. When Matthew and Rachelle Brettler learned their nineteen-year-old son Zac died by suicide, they were devastated but the story didn’t add up for them. He hadn’t seemed suicidal. They soon learned he had a secret life, one in which he posed as the son of a Russian oligarch and became entangled with a crook and gangster. But Scotland Yard didn’t appear to be pursuing justice for their son and so they continue to seek the truth about what happened to Zac. The ensuing investigation is riveting, as is the exploration of the parent-child relationship. I listened to the audiobook narrated by the author.