Dreams of Justice

By Dick Adler

Dick Adler reviews mysteries and thrillers every other week in his Crime Watch column for the Chicago Tribune. He is the co-author, with the late Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, of Public Justice, Private Mercy: A Governor's Education On Death Row. Anthony Lewis in the New York Times Book Review called it "a compelling and important book," and Jonathan Kirsch in the Los Angeles Times said, "Some of the most fascinating passages are the dozen or so case histories of the men and women themselves, the stuff of hard-boiled detective fiction come to life."
Adler has also written Sleeping with Moscow, an account of the Richard Miller FBI espionage case. His mystery novel, The Mozart Code, was published in May, 1999, as an electronic book and was a Frankfurt eBook Award nominee in 2000.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Release date: May 27, 2010
• ISBN: 9781615950003

Dick Adler

DICK ADLER reviews mysteries and thrillers every other Sunday for the Chicago Tribune. Born in Englewood, N.J., he attended high school in New York and Dartmouth College. He has been a magazine and newspaper editor in New York, London and Los Angeles, winning two Maggie Awards for his editing. His other books include PUBLIC JUSTICE, PRIVATE MERCY: A GOVERNOR'S EDUCATION ON DEATH ROW, which he co-authored with Edmund G. (Pat) Brown; SLEEPING WITH MOSCOW, an account of the Richard Miller espionage case; and THE MOZART CODE, a mystery which was a nominee for a Microsoft Ebook Award. Adler lives in Ventura, CA, with his wife, historian and archivist Jane Wilson; they have two children and two grandchildren.

Reviews for Dreams of Justice

[mmyoung_1 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Ultimately a disappointing book which did not deliver what blurbs front and back purported that it would deliver. The subtitle of the book is "mysteries as social documents" yet that is exactly what the reviews collected did not do.