| Description |
155 pages ; 21 cm |
| Summary |
"She couldn't have done it and she must have done it." This is the enigma at the heart of Janet Malcolm's riveting new book about a murder trial in the insular Bukharan-Jewish community of Forest Hills, Queens. The defendant, Mazoltuv Borukhova, a beautiful young physician, is accused of hiring an assassin to kill her estranged husband, Daniel Malakov, a respected orthodontist, in the presence of their four-year-old child. The prosecutor calls it an act of vengeance: just weeks before Malakov was killed in cold blood, he had been given custody of Michelle for inexplicable reasons. It is the Dickensian ordeal of Borukhova's innocent child--the Iphigenia of the story--that drives Malcolm's inquiry. |
| Subject |
Borukhova, Mazoltuv -- Trials, litigation, etc.
|
|
Mallayev, Mikhail -- Trials, litigation, etc.
|
|
Malakov, Daniel -- Death and burial.
|
|
Trials (Murder) -- New York (State) -- Queens County.
|
|
Murder for hire -- New York (State) -- New York.
|
|
Jews, Bukharan -- New York (State) -- New York.
|
|
Queens (New York, N.Y.)
|
| ISBN |
9780300167467 cloth alkaline paper $25.00 |
|
0300167466 cloth alkaline paper |
|
