SUMMARY: From #1 bestseller Michael Connelly's first career as a prizewinning crime reporter--the gripping, true stories that inspired and informed his novels. Before he became a novelist, Michael Con...

In a panoramic history of our criminal justice system from Colonial times to today, one of our foremost legal thinkers shows how America fashioned a system of crime and punishment in its own image....

SUMMARY: Crime and Punishment is one of the most important novels of the nineteenth century. It is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes to set himself outside and above...

Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch

ReviewVirtually any story in this collection contains more art than 98% of the thousands of novels published in this country in the past five years. Elkin's stories are fully realized expr...

Crescent Dawn

Creepers

Pulsing with the dark obsession of Radiohead's song 'Creep,' this taut thriller - Jennifer Hillier's superb debut - rockets from its seductive opening to a heartpounding climax not easily forgotten...

From Publishers WeeklyThe latest horror novel from consistently bestselling Saul ( Suffer the Children ; Hellfire ) is set in Silverdale, Colo., a company-town variation on Spielberg surbu...

SUMMARY: Based on interviews with 91 internationally recognized creative people-among them Nobel physicist John Bardeen, arts administrator-performer Kitty Carlisle Hart, writer Denise Levertov, jazz ...