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“Guys,” he said from the recording booth, “I don’t know that we should be talking about sending babies to the electric chair. Maybe we could just do ‘Should a baby get tried for matricide?’”

It is a penetrating and restrained portrait of a matricide trial that will leave you moved and changed.

Add matricide and an incendiary time period, and you have Beverly Lowry’s new book, “Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta.”

It is a prequel and third sequel and has Norman Bates calling in to a radio talk show whose subject is matricide, or murdering one’s mother.

Lamb Rated R for matricide, patricide and kidnapping.