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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."