This article first ran in The Kansas City Star on July 26, 2026.
Journalist Pam Colloff’s debut book is set in a world where children are polygraphed, women lose their dignity and their savings, bad guys walk free, and innocent men are queued up on death row.
But the characters don’t operate in a fictional dystopian society, they’re right here with the rest of us. Colloff’s business is the truth; she’s an investigative criminal justice reporter for The New York Times Magazine and ProPublica…