Snow White Must Die? Kill the Bitch Already!

Tobias Sartorius spent a decade in solitary confinement in a German prison, convicted at seventeen for  murdering two seventeen-year-old classmates in his home town, the  village of Altenhain near Frankfurt. Unlike most convicted murderers, Tobi never claimed innocence: he didn't know if he was the killer, since he'd been in a drunken stupor. He was awakened by the police investigating the simultaneous disappearances of Laura and Stefanie - the first his ex-girlfriend, the second his current sweetie. Without bodies, the case was entirely circumstantial, but there was plenty of  evidence and enough witnesses to send the manchild away for a decade.

Life Among Giants: Bill Roorbach's Giant of a Novel

You probably wouldn't expect the Hochmeyer kids to be anything unusual. They seemed just two more garden-variety suburban baby-boomer bedroom-community kids from Connecticut, fated to grow up to work in the financial district or as a nurse. But then life dealt them a different hand.

Meet David "Lizard" Hochmeyer, former third-string quarterback for the Miami Dolphins, now a wildly successful restaurateur; and his sister Kate, at one time eighteenth-ranked women's tennis player in the world, now a bipolar mess. From the day English rocker Dabney Stryker-Stewart and his ballerina wife, Sylphide, moved into the mansion across the lake from the Hochmeyers' home, the siblings' lives changed forever; changed from ordinary lives to Life Among Giants.