"Crime may be everywhere but so are the crime fighters in these stories. The truth comes suddenly, to a teenager beaten in a fight, a radio interviewer, a journalist, a homeless man trying to stay sober, and a friend searching for a missing person. In their own ways they right wrongs, set the spinning orb on a smoother circuit. Sometimes the guilty do not face consequences in a courtroom, but justice is achieved in another way, for the daughter of a police chief, the wild older sister, and a husband who peers the future. And then there are those who escape justice for a world that doesn't promise to be kind to them-a young man greedy for his inheritance, a lonely wife, a determined widow, and the wrongfully convicted. Some deserve their fate, and the reader nods in satisfaction. Others do not. They're all here from the arrogantly guilty to the naive and innocent and unlucky."--