Justice

Or subtitled, "Rich People Behaving Horribly." Dunne is not a great writer, and even if Vanity Fair published these essays previously, they are nonetheless little more than gossipy accounts of sensational crimes and trials that attracted the magazine's core readership and let them feel as if they we......more

I've long loved Dominick Dunne, for many reasons. I think I envy him in some ways; he was at the center of New York society, a constant dinner companion and raconteur, among some of the richest and well-known families in the USA. But what I've loved more than that, about Mr. Dunne, is his complete ab......more

How does that old saying go: "Every time a writer dies, Christa buys one of his books?" Dominick Dunne's death was like a magnet to the True Crime section, where I yanked the only Dunne in the store, "Justice: Crimes, Trials, and Punishments." His body was barely cold when I scanned my debit card. T......more

Didn't finish this book. I didn't realize it was a collection of stories he published in vanity fair. The stories overlap and are repetitive and gossipy. I wasn't interested.......more

Dunne's wit, name-dropping, and gossip-column tone are masterfully balanced with his intense and unwavering empathy for victims and their families. Seeing these essays laid out side by side, we are given the gift of how this balance developed in the face of cases that challenged our social conscienc......more