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Sue Grafton Dead at 77

December 29, 2017 Linda L. Richards 0

As far as Sue Grafton’s family is concerned, “the alphabet now ends at Y.” In a message on the author’s Facebook page, Grafton’s daughter, Jamie, posted to let the author’s fans know Grafton has passed away “after a two year battle with cancer.” See was 77. Grafton’s most recent book, Y is for Yesterday, was published last August, a book that the New York Times’ Marilyn Stasio compared favorably with earlier entries in Grafton’s well-loved […]

Non-Fiction: Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America
by Kevin Cook

May 9, 2014 admin 0

(Editor’s note: This review comes from New York writer Steven Nester, the host of Poets of the Tabloid Murder, a weekly Internet radio show heard on the Public Radio Exchange [PRX]. Nester is also a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Rap Sheet, Mystery Scene and Firsts Magazine.) For the last 50 years, the March 13, 1964, rape and murder of bar manager Kitty Genovese outside her Kew Gardens, Queens, apartment was as […]