Rusty Sabich is a prosecuting lawyer in Chicago who enters a nightmare world when Carolyn, a beautiful attorney with whom he has been having an affair, is found raped and strangled. He stands accused of the crime.
Rusty Sabich is a prosecuting lawyer in Chicago who enters a nightmare world when Carolyn, a beautiful attorney with whom he has been having an affair...
'One L', Scott Turow's journal of his first year at law school was a best-seller when it was first published in 1977, and has gone on to become a virtual bible for prospective law students. Not only does it introduce with remarkable clarity the ideas and issues that are the stuff of legal education, it brings alive the anxiety and competiveness that set the tone in this crucible of character building.
'One L', Scott Turow's journal of his first year at law school was a best-seller when it was first published in 1977, and has gone on to become a virt...
It was another drive-by shooting in one of Kindle County's most drug-plagued housing projects - but the victim was the ex-wife of a politician. Now this explosive case is about to reunite an unlikely group of men and women who first bonded in the revolutionary fires of the 1960s ...and show a once-crusading female judge, driven by both her fears and her courage, just how devastating a single wrong choice can be ...
It was another drive-by shooting in one of Kindle County's most drug-plagued housing projects - but the victim was the ex-wife of a politician. Now th...
One afternoon in late March, Sandy Stern, the brilliant, quixotic defence lawyer in Presumed Innocent, returns home to find his wife Clara dead in the garage. They have been married for thirty-one years. Her suicide note leaves him just four words - 'Can you forgive me?' But on the 6th March Clara had expected to live ...
One afternoon in late March, Sandy Stern, the brilliant, quixotic defence lawyer in Presumed Innocent, returns home to find his wife Clara dead in the...
As a pioneer of the modern legal novel and a criminal lawyer, Scott Turow has been involved with the death penalty for more than a decade, including successfully representing two different men convicted in death-penalty prosecutions. In this vivid account of how his views on the death penalty have evolved, Turow describes his own experiences with capital punishment from his days as an impassioned young prosecutor to his recent service on the Illinois commission which investigated the administration of the death penalty and influenced Governor George Ryan's unprecedented commutation of the...
As a pioneer of the modern legal novel and a criminal lawyer, Scott Turow has been involved with the death penalty for more than a decade, including s...
Rusty Sabich, family man & the number two prosecutor of Kindle County, was accused of murdering a former lover. Now 20 years have passed, & Rusty, 60 years old & the chief judge of an appellate court, sits on a bed where his dead wife Barbara lies. She has died under mysterious circumstances.
Rusty Sabich, family man & the number two prosecutor of Kindle County, was accused of murdering a former lover. Now 20 years have passed, & Rusty, 60 ...