Twenty-three years ago in Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow’s best-selling debut, prosecutor Rusty Sabich was acquitted of murdering a former lover. The trial pitted him against his one-time legal colle
'Who killed Carolyn, the beautiful, opportunistic and successful deputy prosecuting attorney whose dead body is found nude and bound in her fashionable apartment? ...Was it rape and murder or a premeditated crime? ...From page one, the book consciously transcends the murder-mystery genre, combining whodunit suspense with an elegant style and philosophical voice.'
When the FBI nabs Robbie Feaver, a failed actor turned philandering lawyer who has been paying off various Kindle County judges to rule in his favor, Robbie's life is placed on the bargaining table. In order to dodge the consequences, he must use his dramatic flair to blackmail the judges into testifying against the man the Feds are really after: Brendan Tuohey, presiding judge of the superior court's common law claims division. But even more complications reside outside the courtroom. Robbie, though known for giving in to extramarital temptations, is grieving the slow demise of his beloved ...
One afternoon, the lawyer Sandy Stern returns home to find his wife Clara dead in the garage. From that day, Sandy starts to find out about the woman he was married to for thirty-one years. The lives of all his family will never be the same again. Another blockbuster from the author of Presumed Innocent. Scott Turow, one of America's most brillliant thriller writers, is also a lawyer.
Un tenso y dramático thriller que retrata magistralmente la corrupción de la profesión jurídica y el sistema judicial en Estados Unidos. Un abogado culpable de fraude se ve obligado a colaborar con el FBI para desmantelar una espuria red de jueces y fiscales.
Romeo Gandolph has confessed to a series of murders, but now, on death row, he takes it back--and it looks as if the case might indeed be open to review. His attorney, Arthur Raven, uncovers another suspect, who also confesses--but is this one any more reliable? To complicate the issue, the judge who issued the original sentence is serving time for bribery. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
