"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...

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...

Today is Thursday, April 12, the 102nd day of 2007. There are 263 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On April 12, 1861, the American Civil War began as Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina.On this date:In 1606, England's King James...

Barack Obama can honestly claim to have made a difference on a matter of life and death.While an Illinois state senator, Obama was key in getting the state's notorious death penalty laws changed, including a requirement that in most cases police interrogations involving capital crimes...

Picture a character like Entourage’s Ari Gold or Wall Street’s Gordon Gekko. He’s high-powered, hard-driving, arrogant, misanthropic and politically incorrect. He has a knack for turning out bitter bon mots that simultaneously frighten and amuse. Now imagine him as the hiring partner at one of...