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Daily Bookmark: “Nobody’s Victim” is a #MeToo battle cry from the courtroom

July 17, 2019July 17, 2019 Alex Williamson

At Carrie Goldberg’s victims’ rights law firm in Brooklyn, there are four types of offenders she confronts again and again: assholes, psychos, pervs and trolls.

Crime Daily Bookmark Mystery

Daily Bookmark: Get lost in Andrea Bartz’s Bushwick murder-suicide mystery

July 2, 2019July 9, 2019 Alex Williamson

The years immediately after college are sort of life’s purgatory. Some join the peace corps, some take a gap year in Europe, some hang around

Crime Fiction

Brooklyn resident Cutter Wood shakes up true crime genre in new book

March 26, 2018 BrooklynBookBeat

“Love and Death in the Sunshine State” has been called “a smart, engrossing true-life noir that weaves meditations on love and the literary life, all

Crime History

Historian writes true-crime account of Evelyn Nesbit scandal

February 28, 2018 BrooklynBookBeat

 The cover of “The Girl on the Velvet Swing” features a photograph of Evelyn Nesbit in 1900. Photo courtesy of Little, Brown and Company The

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