Books

Film critic John Powers reviews Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and Francis Ford Coppola's new film "The Rainmaker," which is an adaptation of the John Grisham novel.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Matters of Chance" the new novel by Jeannette Haien (Harper Collins)

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the re-release of Jacqueline Susann's "Valley of the Dolls" (Grove Press).

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "The End of the Novel of Love" (Beacon Press) by Vivian Gornick.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Rough Justice" (Harper Collins) by Lisa Scottoline.

Maureen Corrigan reviews "Big Trouble" (Simon & Schuster) by J. Anthony Lukas.

Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Halfway Heaven" by Melanie Thernstrom (Doubleday) about the 1995 murder of a Harvard student by her roommate.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Nguyen Thieu's book "The Women Carry River Water."

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "The Napoleon of Crime" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Aug. 15) a biography of Adam Worth, the most famous criminal of the Victorian Age by London Times reporter Ben Macintyre.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews James Frazier's novel "Cold Mountain"