What a great read! Mr. Turow really knows how to keep one on the edge of their seat. Probably the best legal thriller writer there is. ( )

A delightful read! Full of many well drawn characters, all flawed in one way or another and mashing together to forcefully lead the reader deeper and deeper into the plot. We learn much, more than enough to solve the mystery and yet the author throws up a veil that keeps us from seeing the whole story. Long term relationships stress the characters and the reader. Each twist gives new hope while dashing the old. Rusty Sabich is punished but the the truly guilty are never prosecuted.

It has been a while since I read this book. But the lasting impression it left me with was that the author had a problem with women. It seemed that every woman in the story was deeply flawed if not crazy/evil. Even the one disabled prosecutor who seemed to be overly venerated was in a wheel chair due to her driving drunk and killing her husband in a car accident. As I said it has been a long time and I may not be remembering fairly, but did anyone else come away with this feeling? ( )

Legal, detective ( )

This was really a very good novel, once I started into it. It has a narrative structure that I am often impatient with, since the narrator is the person who is the one suffering outrageous fortune, but the descriptions of the trial and the denoument were very gripping, enough to keep me up until 1130 PM on a work night to finish it. The protagonist, Rusty Sabich, is a deputy prosecuting attorney during a reelection campaign of the prosecuting attorney. He has had an affair with another prosecutor, and she ends up dead. He is eventually accused and brought to trial for her murder, and is acquitted because his lawyer manages to convince the judge that he was set up by the newly elected prosecuting attorney. Excellent characters, very vivid and believable details of the trials and Chicagostyle politics. ( )

2475 Presumed Innocent, by Scott Turow (read 28 Nov 1992) This 1987 novel is full of spelled-out bad words and bad people. But it is a fascinating murder story with a trial as its centerpiece. Rusty Sabich, an assistant prosecutor, has an affair with Carolyn Polhemus, another assistant. The story is carefully worked out, and the story has a tremendous surprise ending. I did not like the book, because the people are so evil. But it is quite a book and very easy to read.. I read and much appreciated the author's book 1-L on May 20, 1982, when the author was still in law school. ( )

Chief deputy prosecutor Rusty Sabich is asked to investigate the murder and rape of Carolyn Polhemus, his co-worker. It turns out she is his former lover. When his boss, Raymond Horgan,loses his re-election bid Rusty finds himself being accused of Carolyn's murder. Rusty's obsession with Carolyn complicates things. ( )

Disgusting ending - murderer went free ( )

Easily the best of the four Turow novels I have read. All of the elements of the story - the romantic entanglements, political intrigues, personality clashes - contribute to the plot, unlike some of his other works. ( )

I saw the book and watched the movie. I didn't see the ending coming. It starts slowly, but mades up for it in the end. Keep with it and you'll be rewarded for your patience ( )

Rusty Sabich is chief deputy prosecutor for Kindle County, his boss Raymond Horgan is up for re-election, and his associate Carolyn Polhemus has been brutally raped and murdered in her apartment. The upcoming election will determine if Rusty will have a job. And we learn that Rusty had an affair with Carolyn which she ended several months earlier.

Rusty is handling the investigation of the murder despite the conflict of interest that only he is aware of. His friend, Dan Lipramzer is investigating the crime. They first focus on convicted sex offenders that Carolyn helped to prosecute. Then Rusty learns that his boss Horgan had a brief relationship with Carolyn. Meanwhile Rusty's marriage is in a shambles as his wife Barbara knows about his affair. As evidence surfaces that implicates Rusty he is arrested for the killing.

The prosecution is led by Nico Della "Delay" Guardia, who has now defeated Horgan for the position of Prosecuting Attorney, and Tommy Molto. The evidence against Rusty is serious; calls made from his home to hers on the night of the murder, a bar glass with his fingerprints on it, carpet fibers matching those at his house are found at her home, etc. The courtroom drama that ensues takes many turns for and against him. By the end of the book we do discover who the killer. This is a good read. ( )

I read this book years ago and loved it and I couldn't put it down. Great mystery sent to PFC Kristina Hackman to share with her unit. ( )

This is a fantastic book, enough so that I read it a second time. One of the best in the genre. ( )

I don't know why I read this. I did not like it. ( )