A viewpoint you won't hear on the cable lovefests with Anne and Gloria

Writing the book on sibling rivalry

Now mothers have a little more to fear. After Scott Peterson was convicted of murdering his wife, Laci, and their unborn child, his sister Anne Bird decided to write “Blood Brother: 33 Reasons My Brother Scott Peterson Is Guilty.”

“Isn’t this a new low?” I said, picking up the copy from a stack at my local bookstore.

“Tacky,” pronounced the bookseller.

No kidding. Seems to me it would be just as easy to write a book called “33 Reasons Not to Write a Book About Your Brother No Matter How Guilty He Is.” We could start this particular list with the fact that just having a murderer in the family means that your mother has suffered enough.

Or we could dwell on how the betrayal of this book is so great that it actually manages to make Scott Peterson seem like a sympathetic character. Even the defense attorney couldn’t do that.

Or we could stick with just two little words: death penalty.

Another thing bothers me about the Amber Frey and Anne Bird books. They want us to believe that they wrote them so that we would know the truth. Yet at every interview they have their attorney (Gloria Allred) sitting next to them to answer the hard questions. Why? Why lawyer up like a mobster? Is it really that hard to simply tell the truth?