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New
York Times Best Seller and Court TV Host Sheds Light On Scott
Peterson's Deadly Game Announces ReganBooks
NEW YORK, March
11 /PRNewswire/ -- Hitting bookshelves March 11, 2005, A DEADLY
GAME: The Untold Story of the Scott Peterson Investigation
(ReganBooks, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers) Catherine
Crier, respected former judge and best-selling author, reveals
hours of wiretap transcripts and uncovers dozens of incriminating
new details not admitted at trial. Appearing in bookstores
as Peterson awaits the imposition of his sentence, A Deadly
Game goes beyond all previous accounts of the story, drawing
upon hundreds of hours of taped conversations between Peterson,
his family, and others, to give readers a stunningly intimate
window into the case.
"Ever since Laci
Peterson disappeared on December 24, 2002, and the public
became galvanized by the story, people have asked me Why?"
says Catherine Crier, the noted legal journalist and commentator.
"Why was there so much interest in this single murder case?"
After all, observes Crier, "women go missing all too often
in this country" -- and homicide is the leading cause of death
for pregnant women, usually by the father of the child.
Covering the Peterson
case for her Court TV program Catherine Crier Live gave Crier
an inside track to the workings of the investigation and trial.
She and co-author Cole Thompson had access to previously unseen
police and justice department records, photographs, wiretap
transcripts, and forensic reports. She also interviewed police
investigators and many other participants in the case, gaining
insights and information that never made the news or reached
the jury.
The result is one
of the most up-close and chilling portraits ever published
of a sociopathic personality as he tries -- with both bravado
and desperation -- to evade suspicion. The author reveals
Peterson as an emotionally empty narcissist with "the textbook
characteristics of a sociopath," who truly believed he could
get away with murder, but was done in by his own "brash lies
and flagrant conduct."
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