"Serious readers should be reading [Scott] Turow, because he is not just one of our best crime novelists; he is also one of our better novelists," declared writer/critic Wendy Lesser in the New York Times Book Revie w. Lesser went on to...

Confession: I don't recall ever guessing who did it in a good whodunit; my mind simply doesn't work that way. But in the case of Presumed Innocent, I guessed in no time who the culprit was, without having read, or read anything about,...

CONVICTION By Richard North Patterson. Random House. 465 pp. $25.95 Richard North Patterson is a pop novelist who wants to change the world. In 12 previous novels, Patterson has taken on date rape (he's opposed), Watergate-style corruption (also opposed), child abuse (ditto),...

Good news for fans of Scott Turow's "Presumed Innocent": Rusty Sabich is back on the jobTurow, speaking to The Associated Press on Saturday at BookExpo America, said he has written about one-quarter of a novel featuring the famed chief deputy prosecutor who investigated, and was...

The parents of three Guilford College football players charged with ethnic intimidation defended their sons Friday, nearly a week after an on-campus fight between the players and three Palestinian students.The parents of Michael Bates, Michael Robert Six and Christopher Barnette issued a statement Friday, asking...