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

Catherine Crier has been covering the Peterson case since Laci Peterson disappeared from her home on December 24, 2002. Crier, a former judge and one of television's most popular legal analysts, was among the first to question the behavior of Laci's husband, Scott Peterson. And with her network of journalistic sources, Crier was soon able to penetrate the core of the police investigation that followed — gaining access to a huge and revealing body of previously unseen police reports, transcripts of recorded conversations, photographic evidence, and other exclusive materials. Drawing on these resources — and extensive interviews with key witnesses and lead investigators — Crier has written this astonishingly detailed and intimate look at the most notorious murder case since O. J. Simpson.

Among the revelations in A Deadly Game:

• Dozens of actual conversations involving Scott, Amber Frey, the police, and his family, friends, and others — filled with Scott's chilling and incriminating behavior.
• The most complete account ever of Scott's lies and manipulation — in the words of those who knew him best.
• Accounts of Scott's womanizing from his conquests themselves — including the woman he was dating just before Laci, and two of his mistresses before Amber
• How Laci's mother confronted Scott with furious accusations — while his own mother privately urged him to "deny, deny, deny"
• How swift police work may have saved the case in the first twenty-four hours
• The untold story of how Amber maintained contact with Scott without informing police, and was briefly considered a suspect
• How Scott bragged to two different witnesses about how to kill someone
• Many never-before-seen police photos, documents, and evidence files

Thoroughly engrossing yet highly disturbing, A Deadly Game is the definitive account of a murder that left an indelible stain on the American psyche.

A riveting read, and an important story well told. No one knows the criminal justice system better than Catherine Crier, and A Deadly Game offers a brilliant and insightful analysis of the Scott Peterson murder investigation.

As a prosecutor, judge, and national television journalist, Catherine has the perfect perspective to tell this chilling story — in all its detail — for the first time. Filled with newsbreaking revelations — the definitive journalistic account of the Laci Peterson murder investigation . . . and of the sociopathic Scott Peterson's journey from philandering to murder to Death Row.

Catherine Crier, a former judge and one of television's most popular legal analysts, was among the first to question the behavior of Laci's husband, Scott Peterson. And with her network of journalistic sources, Crier gained access to a huge and revealing body of police reports, wiretap transcripts of unreported conversations of Scott's, photographic evidence, and other exclusive material.

Catherine Crieris 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 is the recipient of an Emmy Award for investigative journalism and the duPont-Columbia Journalism Award. As executive editor, Legal News Specials, for Court TV, Crier has hosted specials including Court TV Investigates: The Laci Peterson Murder; Serial Sniper: The Investigation; and The Skakel Jury Speaks with Dominick Dunne and Catherine Crier. Also the author of the New York Timesbestseller The Case Against Lawyers, Crier lives in Westchester County, New York.