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    A Deadly Game: The Untold Story of the Scott Peterson Investigation

    By Catherine Crier

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    In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Catherine Crier, a former judge and one of television's most popular legal analysts, offers a riveting and authoritative account of one of the most memorable crime dramas of our time: the murder of Laci Peterson at the hands of her husband, Scott, on Christmas Eve 2002. Drawing on extensive interviews with key witnesses and lead investigators, as well as secret evidence files that never made it to trial, Crier traces Scott's bizarre behavior; shares dozens of transcripts of Scott's chilling and incriminating phone conversations; offers accounts of Scott's womanizing from two former mistresses before Amber Frey; and includes scores of never-before-seen police photos, documents, and other evidence.

    The result is thoroughly engrossing yet highly disturbing -- an unforgettable portrait of a charming, yet deeply sociopathic, killer.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 11, 2012
    ISBN9780061915567
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    A Deadly Game: The Untold Story of the Scott Peterson Investigation
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    Catherine Crier

    Catherine Crier is the host of Court TV's Catherine Crier Live. A distinguished attorney, legal analyst, and the youngest state judge ever to be elected in Texas, Crier has received an Emmy Award for investigative journalism and the DuPont-Columbia Journalism Award. Also the author of the New York Times bestsellers A Deadly Game and The Case Against Lawyers, Crier lives in Westchester County, New York.

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    • 5/5
      Great story well told by a brilliant writer.
    • 4/5
      After reading Anne Bird's book (she's Scott Peterson sister, given up for adoption as a baby), I picked up this book to get a fuller background of the whole sordid story. While Crier is wildly biased and interjects her opinion way too much, it's an interesting true crime story that provides mountains of details, and a lot of inside information never presented in the court case.

      The way Peterson's family is presented is pretty terrifying in its own right, with a mother that seemed to idolize her "golden boy" son and always had an excuse for anything Scott did. Scott was an easy-going sociopath who just could not feel the pain of others and seemed to have actually thought that a missing pregnant woman would just "blow over" and he'd be free.

      The editing on this book was HORRIBLE, as in someone used search/replace on the last part of the book and as a result Laci's name is shown as LCI. Also lots of misspelled words and incoherent sentences.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this book for the snapshot and collection of all events in the case of Laci Peterson. It's frustrating because you want to understand what happened and why. This book can't answer those deeper questions, but it a good recap of the events as they unfolded - the only answers we may ever have.

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    • 4/5
      Heart breaking read Had to put the book down and do other things then start reading again
    • 4/5
      Well written. Good Account