Presumed Guilty by Scott Turow
An addicting courtroom drama from the #1 bestselling author of Presumed Innocent."No one does it better." ―David Baldacci, #1 NYT bestselling author of Memory Man
★ "This is manna for legal-thriller fans." ―Booklist, starred review
★ "This easily ranks among Turow's best."―Publishers Weekly, starred review
Rusty is a retired judge attempting a third act in life with a loving soon-to-be wife, Bea, with whom he shares both a restful home on an idyllic lake in the rural Midwest and a plaintive hope that this marriage will be his best, and his last. But the peace that's taken Rusty so long to find evaporates when Bea's young adult son, Aaron, living under their supervision while on probation for drug possession, disappears. If Aaron doesn't return soon, he will be sent back to jail.
Aaron eventually turns up with a vague story about a camping trip with his troubled girlfriend, Mae, that ended in a fight and a long hitchhike home. Days later, when she still hasn't returned, suspicion falls on Aaron, and when Mae is subsequently discovered dead, Aaron is arrested and set for trial on charges of first-degree murder.
Faced with few choices and even fewer hopes, Bea begs Rusty to return to court one last time, to defend her son and to save their last best hope for happiness. For Rusty, the question is not whether to defend Aaron, or whether the boy is in fact innocent--it's whether the system to which he has devoted his life can ever provide true justice for those who are presumed guilty.
Presumed Innocent, Innocent, Ordinary Heroes, The Weight of Evidence, Reversible Mistakes, and Limits are among Scott Turow's internationally bestselling novels. One L, his first-year law school journal, and Ultimate Punishment, which he published after serving on the Illinois panel that studied the death penalty's administration and impacted Governor George Ryan's unusual commute of the sentences of 164 death row inmates on his last day in office, are among his nonfiction writings. The Robert F. Kennedy Award went to Extreme Punishment. The Kennedy Book Prize is given to the best book published in the United States He is a partner at SNR Denton (previously Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal) and resides outside of Chicago.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781538771082 |
| ISBN 10 | 153877108X |
| Title | Presumed Guilty |
| Author | Scott Turow |
| Series | Presumed Innocent |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Grand Central Publishing |
| Year published | 2025-01-14 |
| Number of pages | 752 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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