August 2010 Featured Book
Innocent
by Scott Turow '70
" I came away feeling amazed and fulfilled, as we only do when we read novelists at the height of their powers. Put this one on your don't-miss list." - Stephen King
- Learn more about the author (view alumni profile)
- Listen to the interview with Scott Turow and Harlan Coben '84
- Read the review by Rand Richards Cooper '80
- Read an excerpt from the prologue
- Read a personal message from the author and join the discussion
- See other books by Scott Turow '70
More than twenty years after Rusty Sabich and Tommy Molto went head-to-head in the shattering murder trial of Presumed Innocent, the men are pitted against each other once again in a riveting psychological match. When Sabich, now over sixty years old and the chief judge of an appellate court, finds his wife, Barbara, dead under mysterious circumstances, Molto accuses him of murder for the second time, setting into motion a trial that is vintage Turow--the courtroom at its most taut and explosive.
With his characteristic insight into both the dark truths of the human psyche and the dense intricacies of the criminal justice system, Scott Turow proves once again that some books simply compel us to read late into the night, desperate to know who did it.