Another author on the no list

[cornerofmadness]

Okay I'm getting tired of authors I like turning out to be assholes. Oddly enough I was just telling ELD that I had liked Linda Fairstein because her character mirrored her life as a sex crimes prosecutor but I hadn't read her in forever because the character had become a Mary Sue. One of the popsugar challenges this time is two read two books, each set in a sister city. Well I decided to softball it in with London and NYC because I read a crap ton of books set there.

The one I was reading (from a library sale) was boring and repetitive and I wanted to see where in the series it was. Shockingly #2 that I somehow missed. But that's when I saw the people all over HER and not the book. SOmehow I missed the Netflix series When They See Us which is a fictionalized based on a true story thing about a case I HAD heard of, a group of five African American boys accused of rape in Central Park (ripped off by Law and Order and other cop shows).

I didn't know she was part of it. I knew it had come out that they were innocent. Now, slightly in her defense, this was before DNA but a) she sued netflix because this depicted her as racist and more importantly b) even with them being exonerated now years later she's being one of those prosecutors who refuses to admit to a mistake, saying they still belong in jail.

I never knew until I started really watching true crime that District Attorneys can actually impede/deny retrials even if there is new evidence and some of them do preferring to let the innocent remain imprisoned than admit a mistake which is jaw-droppingly wrong.

So seeing that, her absolute refusal to admit the mistake (and if I remember the case right, these boys were all but tortured into confessing with 16 hour interviews and stuff like that) I can easily chuck this out.


Speaking of true crime and books let me relate a story I meant to all week and ask a question.

Another Popsugar challenge is this prompt A book with a character on the ace spectrum. I have several nonbinary books but none that are ACE. ANyone have any mysteries or SFF books with an ACE character you'd like to rec? I prefer it that the whole book isn't about them being ACE, instead that hey they're ace but this thing over here is the actual plot.


And as for true crime we had a double murder here. At the end of 2020 I was talking to my coworker about a house she was renting. She had told me about how they had blacked out the garage windows, changed the locks and put in a mystery vent. I said get the cops, they're cooking meth. We don't know if they were but she did get them out and I thought about taking the house. But she has a serious cancer and then I fell.

So I didn't take the house. Well the couple who had been renting it (and potentially cooking drugs) split up and he and his new girl killed her and her new guy (who apparently were trying to get her kids back from this guy who had put them in a shed so they'd be safe as he cooked meth in the new place).

Comments

[aaronlisa]

My mum is big into true crime and the number of police officers and prosecutors that refuse to admit that they were wrong and had the wrong person is really kind of scary. I remember a show that she was watching about a month ago where the cops in charge of the case assumed that one guy had to be the person who did it because he brought in a lawyer when he was questioned. It later turned out that he was completely innocent but you could tell that the cop being interviewed still thought the guy was shady. No, sadly that's a smart man to make sure he didn't get tricked by the police. And there's countless cases where the police & prosecution have focused on a spouse to the point that they refuse to look at any other suspects or even interpreter the evidence in any other way.

[the_siobhan]

That is a hell of a story.

[cornerofmadness]

It was something else, never expected it

[cornerofmadness]

that is sadly true