Volume 46, Number 11 · June 24, 1999
The Mystery of JonBenét Ramsey
By Joyce Carol Oates
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
by Lawrence Schiller
HarperCollins, 621 pp., $26.00
Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey?
by Cyril Wecht, by Charles Bosworth Jr.
Onyx, 352 pp., $6.50 (paper)
A Mother Gone Bad: The Hidden Confession of JonBenét's Killer
by Andrew G. Hodges
Birmingham, Alabama: Village House, 239 pp., $12.95 (paper)
Death of a Little Princess: The Tragic Story of the Murder of JonBenét Ramsey
by Carlton Smith
St. Martin's, 291 pp., $5.99 (paper)
The profound and disturbing disequilibrium provoked by the commission of a crime demands a response, if the fabric of society is not to be rent. What we mean by revenge is private justice, committed when public justice is unavailable or untrustworthy, as terrorism is the response of seemingly desperate, despairing persons for whom the more orderly procedures of politics are unavailable or untrustworthy.
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