Nineteen MinutesJodi Picoult Nineteen minutes is the amount of time it takes Peter Houghton to kill ten people and wound 19 more on one March morning at Sterling High School. Nineteen Minutes is also the title of Jodi Picoult’s latest novel, the story of a high-school shooting spree similar to Columbine and others, but with one major difference – the shooter is found just in time to be prevented from turning his gun on himself, …