Barry Siegel, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-43821-8
Siegel is a reporter who has written a couple of legal thrillers (e.g., Actual Innocence) and some true crime books. On the evidence of this work, set in a little California coastal town whose charms are rapidly giving way to progress, he is better...
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Barry Siegel, Author . Harper $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-077702-9
In 1948, three civilian engineers died in the crash of an air force B-29 bomber that was testing a missile guidance system; in their widows’ lawsuit, the Supreme Court upheld the air force’s refusal to divulge accident reports that it...
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Barry Siegel, Author Bantam Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05790-4
This is a masterfully depicted true-crime tale of the murder of a child by his adoptive mother and the resolution of the case 27 years later. In 1980 Jerry Sherwood, who had given her first child up for adoption, searched for him only to discover...
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Barry Siegel, Author Bantam Books $21.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-08115-2
A populist federal judge who fought for the women victimized by the Dalkon Shield, a specialist in echocardiography (a fetal detective, so to speak), the killers of six helpless citizens and a highly intelligent young farmer who survived the cycle...
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Barry Siegel, Author Ballantine Books $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-41307-9
Los Angeles Times reporter Siegel makes a bumpy but ultimately successful transition from true crime (A Death in White Bear Lake) to fiction in a novel that reads like two separate but wildly unequal legal thrillers. In the book's first, rather...
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Barry Siegel, Author Ballantine Books $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-345-41309-3
Despite its sleepy appearance, the tiny hamlet of El Nido, Calif., harbors terrible secrets. As Siegel's second thriller featuring attorney Greg Monarch (after The Perfect Witness) begins, El Nido resident Sarah Trant has been sitting on death row...
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Barry Siegel. Holt, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9415-2
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Siegel (A Death in White Bear Lake) leaves little room to doubt the innocence of Bill Macumber in this moving and powerful story of a Kafkaesque justice system gone awry. In 1962, a young engaged couple was gunned...
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