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Deborah Homsher, "From Blood to Verdict"
Feb. 25th, 2011 07:44 amSubtitle: 'Three Women on Trial'.
This was sent to me as part of a bookring, and is something that I'd never have read off my own bat. It deals with three trials in Ithaca (New York), written by an author local to that area, and comes complete with bookmark from an Ithaca bookshop (which, by the way, I am keeping!)
It's one of the better true crime works I've read: always compassionate and often moving, but never afraid to admit where knowledge ends. Well-informed, aware, and bearing the hallmarks of its authorship: someone local, someone who understood - but not so insular that the foreigner loses interest. Homsher questions everything. One case, perhaps more, proves to be a house built on sand, but one still feels that it's an account worth reading.
This was sent to me as part of a bookring, and is something that I'd never have read off my own bat. It deals with three trials in Ithaca (New York), written by an author local to that area, and comes complete with bookmark from an Ithaca bookshop (which, by the way, I am keeping!)
It's one of the better true crime works I've read: always compassionate and often moving, but never afraid to admit where knowledge ends. Well-informed, aware, and bearing the hallmarks of its authorship: someone local, someone who understood - but not so insular that the foreigner loses interest. Homsher questions everything. One case, perhaps more, proves to be a house built on sand, but one still feels that it's an account worth reading.
