Justice

Dominick Dunne spent more than twenty years reporting for Vanity Fair on the crimes and courtroom dramas that gripped the public, and this book gathers that work. It follows cases in which the system delivered a verdict that held up and others in which it seemed to fail, and it looks at wealthy, powerful and famous people when they find themselves facing the law.

The cases range widely. Claus von Bülow goes through two trials. Los Angeles is swept up in the media storm around O.J. Simpson. The banker Edmond Safra, a multibillionaire, dies in a fire. In Greenwich, Connecticut, the murder of Martha Moxley eventually leads, decades afterward, to the indictment of Michael Skakel.

Dunne writes each of these from his own vantage point and keeps pushing toward what actually happened. His pieces are candid, personal and persistent, and they appeal to readers who want to see how high-profile crimes and trials unfold from the inside.