Brooklyn resident shakes up true crime genre in new book
Brooklyn BookBeat
“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 set amid the palm trees and seedy motels of Florida’s steaming coastline” by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich. While the book is set in Florida, its author, Cutter Wood, lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant. He will appear at Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene on April 17 for the book launch.
Refracting a provocative story of love and murder through a lens clouded by ambiguity, Wood’s remarkable debut is, like Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood,” a searing blend of the documentary and the literary. As Wood embeds himself in the investigation of the mysterious murder, he comes to explore not only the circumstances leading up to a woman’s death, but the darkness that can lead love down a dark path.