Dead Girl: Dead Girl

Melanie Thernstrom. Pocket Books, $6.5 (448pp) ISBN 978-0-671-66333-9

Thernstrom gives an account of her best friend, UC-Berkeley student Roberta ``Bibi'' Lee, murdered in 1984 while jogging with her boyfriend, Bradley Page. stet ``An innovative if self-indulgent approach to the true crime genre,'' said PW. ``Putatively about Bibi, her death, the investigation and Page's murder conviction . . . the book is really a coming-of-age story about Thernstrom herself,'' said PW . Illustrated. (Dec.)

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