Iphigenia In Forest Hills Av Janet Malcolm

Prizewinning journalist Janet Malcolm discovers the elements of Greek tragedy in a sensational New York City murder trial 'Astringent and absorbing. . . . Iphigenia in Forest Hills casts, from its first pages, a genuine spell — the kind of spell to which Ms. Malcolm’s admirers (and I am one) have become addicted.'—Dwight Garner, New York Times 'This is shrewd and quirky crime reporting at its irresistible and disabused best.'—Louis Begley, Wall Street Journal 'She couldn't have done it and she must have done it.' This is the enigma at the heart of Janet Malcolm's riveting book about a murder trial in the insular Bukharan-Jewish community of Forest Hills, Queens, that captured national attention. 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