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Scott Turow

Author of Presumed Innocent

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About the Author

Scott Turow is a writer and lawyer. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, on April 12, 1949. He received a B.A. from Amherst College in 1970 and an M.A. from Stanford University in 1974. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1978. He was an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago and served as a show more prosecutor in several corruption cases. Turow continues to work as an attorney. He has written numerous novels including Presumed Innocent, The Burden of Proof, Pleading Guilty, The Laws of Our Fathers, Personal Injuries, Ordinary Heroes, Limitations, Innocent, and Identical. His non-fiction works include One L about his experience as a law student and Ultimate Punishment about the death penalty. He has won numerous awards including the Heartland Prize in 2003 for Reversible Errors, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award in 2004 for Ultimate Punishment, and Time Magazine's Best Work of Fiction, 1999 for Personal Injuries. He will give a keynote speech at the National writer's Congress 2015. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Works by Scott Turow

Presumed Innocent (1987) 4,303 copies
The Burden of Proof (1990) 2,454 copies
Pleading Guilty (1993) 1,840 copies
Reversible Errors (2002) 1,677 copies
The Laws of Our Fathers (1996) 1,644 copies
Personal Injuries (1999) 1,534 copies
Innocent (2010) 1,466 copies
Ordinary Heroes (2005) 1,275 copies
One L (1977) 1,271 copies
Identical (2013) 860 copies
Limitations (2006) 628 copies
Testimony (2017) 525 copies
The Last Trial (2020) 441 copies
Suspect (2022) 215 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 2006 (2006) — Editor — 152 copies
Guilty As Charged (1996) — Editor & Introduction — 63 copies
Identical -- Free Preview (The First 4 Chapters) (2013) — Author — 3 copies
W.H.S. Scott Turrow (1992) 2 copies
Identical r 1 copy
Identicall 1 copy
Dominance 1 copy
Il sospetto (2023) 1 copy
Turow Scott 1 copy
Inside Out 1 copy
The Innocent 1 copy

Associated Works

The Best American Essays 2006 (2006) — Contributor — 301 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 2005 (2005) — Contributor — 188 copies
This Is My Best: Great Writers Share Their Favorite Work (2004) — Contributor — 159 copies
Fourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel (2022) — Contributor — 130 copies
Bush v. Gore: the Court Cases and the Commentary (2001) — Contributor — 52 copies

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Clarice "Pinky" Granum and Rik Dudek are assigned to help represent Police Chief Lucia Gomez in a sexual harrassment case -sex in exchange for a promotion. The chief claims innocence. As Pinky, a PI with a checkered past of sex and drugs, delves into the past of both Gomez and her accusers, she notices that her new neighbor acts strangely. Is he a spy?
Secrets of the chief's questionable behavior, combined with the testimony of her accusers, leads Pinky to discover a deeper secret from years earlier, and now the chief's life is in danger.
I enjoyed this story, and Pinky's scrappy attitude.
An enjoyable read.
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rmarcin | 10 other reviews | Mar 11, 2024 |
Presumed Innocent was originally published by Scott Turow back in 1987 and it was turned into a movie featuring Harrison Ford not too many years later. I made the mistake of Googling it before reading it so the entire time I just pictured the main character as Harrison Ford the entire time…I have also not seen the movie.
This is the first book in the Kindle County series about a prosecutor whose friendships are questioned when he gets accused of murdering a fellow co-worker. For the most part I enjoyed the story and the ending was interesting and unexpected.
There was a lot that I didn’t care for. For one, it is very long and wordy. One paragraph could take up an entire page. There were times where it was really slow and I skimmed it. Also the main character is not likeable.
The ending was not set up for a sequel so I’m curious how the series has 12 books and is still going…I will give book 2 a try but this wouldn’t be in my top recommend lists for crime...
★★★
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