Most Popular Books by Scott Turow

One L, Scott Turow''s journal of his first year at law school and a best-seller when it was first published in 1977, 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--with others and, even more, with oneself--that set the tone in this crucible of character building. Each September, a new crop of students enter Harvard Law School to begin an intense, often grueling, sometimes harrowing year of introduction to the law. Turow''s group of One Ls are fresh, bright, ambitious, and more than a little daunting. Even more impressive are the faculty. Will the One Ls survive? Will they excel? Will they make the Law Review, the outward and visible sign of success in this ultra-conservative microcosm? With remarkable insight into both his fellows and himself, Turow leads us through the ups and downs, the small triumphs and tragedies of the year, in an absorbing and thought-provoking narrative that teaches the reader not only about law school and the law but about the human beings who make them what they are. In the new afterword for this edition of One L, the author looks back on law school from the perspective of ten years'' work as a lawyer and offers some suggestions for reforming legal education.

NOW AN APPLE ORIGINAL SERIES FROM APPLE TV+ STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL From #1 New York Times bestselling author and hailed as the most suspenseful and compelling novel in decades, this story brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary citizen facing conviction for the most terrible of all crimes. Rusty Sabich, family man and the number-two prosecutor of Kindle County, is handed an explosive case--the brutal murder of a woman who happens to be his former lover. A shocking turn of events suddenly transforms him from the accuser into the accused... and plunges him into a nightmare world where nothing seems real and no one can be PRESUMED INNOCENT. It''s the stunning portrayal of one man''s all-too-human, all-consuming fatal attraction for a passionate woman who is not his wife, and the story of how his obsession puts everything he loves and values on trial--including his own life. It''s a book that lays bare a shocking world of betrayal and murder, as well as the hidden depths of the human heart. And it will hold you and haunt you...long after you have reached its shattering conclusion.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent and The Last Trial returns with a riveting legal thriller in which a reckless private detective is embroiled in a fraught police scandal. For as long as Lucia Gomez has been the police chief in the city of Highland Isle, near Kindle County, she has known that any woman in law enforcement must walk a precarious line between authority and camaraderie to gain respect. She has maintained a spotless reputation—until now. Three male police officers have accused her of soliciting sex in exchange for promotions to higher ranks. With few people left who she can trust, Chief Gomez turns to an old friend, Rik Dudek, to act as her attorney in the federal grand jury investigation, insisting to Rik that the accusations against her are part of an ugly smear campaign designed to destroy her career and empower her enemies—both outside the police force and within.. Clarice “Pinky” Granum spent most of her youth experimenting with an impressive array of drugs and failing out of various professions, including the police academy. Pinky knows that in the eyes of most people, she''s nothing but a screwup—but she doesn''t trust most people''s opinions anyway. Moreover, she finally has a respectable-enough job as a licensed P.I. working for Rik on his roster of mostly minor cases, like workman''s comp, DUIs and bar fights. Rik''s shabby office and even shabbier cases are a far cry from the kinds of high-profile criminal matters Pinky became familiar with in the law office of her grandfather, Sandy Stern. But Rik and Pinky feel that Chief Gomez’s case, which has attracted national attention, is their chance to break into the legal big leagues. Guided by her gut instinct and razor-sharp investigative skills, Pinky dives headfirst into a twisted scandal that will draw her into the deepest recesses of the city’s criminal networks, as well as the human mind. But she will need every scrap of tenacity and courage to unravel the dark secrets those closest to her are determined to keep hidden.

In The Burden of Proof, Scott Turow probes the fascinating and complex character of Alejandro Stern as he tries to uncover the truth about his wife''s life. Late one spring afternoon, Alejandro Stern, the brilliant defense lawyer from Presumed Innocent, comes home from a business trip to find that Clara, his wife of thirty years, has committed suicide.

A crooked lawyer joins forces with an F.B.I. agent who has secrets of her own.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent comes a compelling new legal mystery featuring George Mason from Personal Injuries. Originally commissioned and published by The New York Times Magazine, this edition contains additional material. Life would seem to have gone well for George Mason. His days as a criminal defense lawyer are long behind him. At fifty-nine, he has sat as a judge on the Court of Appeals in Kindle County for nearly a decade. Yet, when a disturbing rape case is brought before him, the judge begins to question the very nature of the law and his role within it. What is troubling George Mason so deeply? Is it his wife''s recent diagnosis? Or the strange and threatening e-mails he has started to receive? And what is it about this horrific case of sexual assault, now on trial in his courtroom, that has led him to question his fitness to judge? In Limitations, Scott Turow, the master of the legal thriller, returns to Kindle County with a page-turning entertainment that asks the biggest questions of all. Ingeniously, and with great economy of style, Turow probes the limitations not only of the law but of human understanding itself.

America''s leading writer about the law takes a close, incisive look at one of society''s most vexing legal issues Scott Turow is known to millions as the author of peerless novels about the troubling regions of experience where law and reality intersect. In "real life," as a respected criminal lawyer, he 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 sentences of 164 death row inmates on his last day in office. Along the way, he provides a brief history of America''s ambivalent relationship with the ultimate punishment, analyzes the potent reasons for and against it, including the role of the victims'' survivors, and tells the powerful stories behind the statistics, as he moves from the Governor''s Mansion to Illinois'' state-of-the art ''super-max'' prison and the execution chamber. Ultimate Punishment, this gripping, clear-sighted, necessary examination of the principles, the personalities, and the politics of a fundamental dilemma of our democracy has all the drama and intellectual substance of Turow''s celebrated fiction.

Stewart Dubinsky plunges into the mystery of his family''s secret history when he discovers his deceased father''s wartime letters to his former fiancě, revealing his court-martial and imprisonment during World World II.

The star litigator from a top-notch law firm has gone missing, along with 5.6 million dollars from a class-action settlement, and "Mack" Malloy, a foul-mouthed ex-cop and partner-on-the-wane must find both. Immediately. Turow''s third novel takes us back to Kindle County, where skies are generally gray and the truth is seldom simple, in an edge-of-the-chair story rife with indelible characters and riveting suspense.

Further complicating the situation is the fact that Gillian Sullivan, the judge who originally found Rommy guilty, is only recently out of prison herself, having served time for taking bribes."--BOOK JACKET.

A drive-by shooting of an aging white woman at a gang-plagued Kindle County housing project sets in motion Scott Turow''s intensely absorbing novel. With its riveting suspense and idelibly drawn characters, The Laws of our Fathers shows why Turow is not only the master of the modern legal thriller but also one of America''s most engaging and satisfying novelists.

State Senator Paul Giannis is a candidate for Mayor of Kindle County. His identical twin brother Cass is newly released from prison, 25 years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, Dita Kronon. When Evon Miller, an ex-FBI agent who is the head of security for the Kronon family business, and private investigator Tim Brodie begin a re-investigation of Dita''s death, a complex web of murder, sex, and betrayal-as only Scott Turow could weave-dramatically unfolds...

Two formidable men collide in this "first-class legal thriller" and New York Times bestseller about a celebrated criminal defense lawyer and the prosecution of his lifelong friend -- a doctor accused of murder (David Baldacci). At eighty-five years old, Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, a brilliant defense lawyer with his health failing but spirit intact, is on the brink of retirement. But when his old friend Dr. Kiril Pafko, a former Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, is faced with charges of insider trading, fraud, and murder, his entire life''s work is put in jeopardy, and Stern decides to take on one last trial. In a case that will be the defining coda to both men''s accomplished lives, Stern probes beneath the surface of his friend''s dazzling veneer as a distinguished cancer researcher. As the trial progresses, he will question everything he thought he knew about his friend. Despite Pafko''s many failings, is he innocent of the terrible charges laid against him? How far will Stern go to save his friend, and -- no matter the trial''s outcome -- will he ever know the truth? Stern''s duty to defend his client and his belief in the power of the judicial system both face a final, terrible test in the courtroom, where the evidence and reality are sometimes worlds apart. Full of the deep insights into the spaces where the fragility of human nature and the justice system collide, Scott Turow''s The Last Trial is a masterful legal thriller that unfolds in page-turning suspense -- and questions how we measure a life.

Scott Turow, #1 New York Times bestselling author and "one of the major writers in America" (NPR), returns with a page-turning legal thriller about an American prosecutor''s investigation of a refugee camp''s mystifying disappearance. At the age of fifty, former prosecutor Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his law career, his wife, Kindle County, even his country. Still, when he is tapped by the International Criminal Court--an organization charged with prosecuting crimes against humanity--he feels drawn to what will become the most elusive case of his career. Over ten years ago, in the apocalyptic chaos following the Bosnian war, an entire Roma refugee camp vanished. Now for the first time, a witness has stepped forward: Ferko Rincic claims that armed men marched the camp''s Gypsy residents to a cave in the middle of the night--and then with a hand grenade set off an avalanche, burying 400 people alive. Only Ferko survived. Boom''s task is to examine Ferko''s claims and determinine who might have massacred the Roma. His investigation takes him from the International Criminal Court''s base in Holland to the cities and villages of Bosnia and secret meetings in Washington, DC, as Boom sorts through a host of suspects, ranging from Serb paramilitaries, to organized crime gangs, to the US government itself, while also maneuvering among the alliances and treacheries of those connected to the case: Layton Merriwell, a disgraced US major general desperate to salvage his reputation; Sergeant Major Atilla Doby,a vital cog in American military operations near the camp at the time of the Roma''s disappearance; Laza Kajevic, the brutal former leader of the Bosnian Serbs; Esma Czarni, Ferko''s alluring barrister; and of course, Ferko himself, on whose testimony the entire case rests-and who may know more than he''s telling. A master of the legal thriller, Scott Turow has returned with his most irresistibly confounding and satisfying novel yet.

Scott Turow, #1 New York Times bestselling author and "one of the major writers in America" (NPR), returns with a page-turning legal thriller about an American prosecutor''s investigation of a refugee camp''s mystifying disappearance. At the age of fifty, former prosecutor Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his law career, his wife, Kindle County, even his country. Still, when he is tapped by the International Criminal Court--an organization charged with prosecuting crimes against humanity--he feels drawn to what will become the most elusive case of his career. Over ten years ago, in the apocalyptic chaos following the Bosnian war, an entire Roma refugee camp vanished. Now for the first time, a witness has stepped forward: Ferko Rincic claims that armed men marched the camp''s Gypsy residents to a cave in the middle of the night--and then with a hand grenade set off an avalanche, burying 400 people alive. Only Ferko survived. Boom''s task is to examine Ferko''s claims and determinine who might have massacred the Roma. His investigation takes him from the International Criminal Court''s base in Holland to the cities and villages of Bosnia and secret meetings in Washington, DC, as Boom sorts through a host of suspects, ranging from Serb paramilitaries, to organized crime gangs, to the US government itself, while also maneuvering among the alliances and treacheries of those connected to the case: Layton Merriwell, a disgraced US major general desperate to salvage his reputation; Sergeant Major Atilla Doby,a vital cog in American military operations near the camp at the time of the Roma''s disappearance; Laza Kajevic, the brutal former leader of the Bosnian Serbs; Esma Czarni, Ferko''s alluring barrister; and of course, Ferko himself, on whose testimony the entire case rests-and who may know more than he''s telling. A master of the legal thriller, Scott Turow has returned with his most irresistibly confounding and satisfying novel yet.

Una historia sobre el valor, la traición, la pasión y el misterio de una guerra silenciada por un padre. Un nuevo bestseller por el autor de Presunto inocente. Stewart Dubinsky sabe que su padre luchó en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Alguien le ha contado que su padre, David Dubin (un apellido americanizado que más tarde Stewart rechazó y recuperó el original), rescató a su mujer —y madre de Stewart— del horror de un campo de concentración. Tras la muerte de su padre, Stewart descubre un paquete de cartas del período bélico destinadas a su novia en las que se narra su paso por un juzgado y posterior ingreso en la prisión. A partir de ese momento, Stewart se adentra en el misterio que rodea a su padre, un hombre que siempre se negó a hablar de la guerra en la que combatió. A medida que va reconstruyendo la vida de su padre, a través de cartas, archivos militares, y notas de un diario que su padre escribió en la cárcel y que habían permanecido ocultas por el oficial que lo defendió, Stewart descubre una cadena de sucesos dramáticos. David Dublín trabajó como abogado en el Departamento Militar, y se le encomendó detener a un carismático oficial que estaba bajo sospecha de ser un espía. Sin embargo, David no lo arresta y poco después es encarcelado por insubordinación. Con esta reconstrucción Stewart consigue entender el pasado de su padre, las decisiones difíciles que tuvo que tomar, a la vez que toma conciencia de la brutal naturaleza de las guerras. “Una vez más, las novelas de Turow demuestran que la literatura aporta verdades que la realidad es incapaz de darnos.” Fernando Martínez Laínez, ABC “Héroes corrientes es un trabajo de orfebrería, la reconstrucción delicada, y lograda, de una vida esquiva y en clandestinidad —una vida durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial a medida que transcurre— de un Scott Turow en plena forma. Así que estáis avisados, es un libro para empezar a leerlo el viernes por la noche.” -Alan Furst

NOW A MAJOR LIMITED TV SERIES STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL Presumed Innocent is the internationally bestselling, gripping legal thriller from Scott Turow. Prosecutor Rusty Sabich 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. Fighting to prove his innocence, Rusty uncovers a tangled web of sex, corruption and betrayal. With no one to trust, it''s up to Rusty to uncover who is really behind this deadly crime . . .

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 . . .

Robbie Feaver is a successful personal injury lawyer, with a burgeoning practice, a way with the ladies and a beautiful wife he loves - who is dying of an incurable illness. He also has a secret bank account where he occasionally deposits funds which make their way into the pockets of judges who decide Robbie''s cases. Robbie is apprehended and, in exchange for leniency, agrees to ''wear a wire'' as he continues to try to fix decisions. The FBI agent assigned to supervise him goes by the alias of Evon Miller. She is stocky, lonely, uncomfortable in her skin, and impervious to Robbie''s charms. And she carries secrets of her own ...

The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays “full of struggle, emotion, fear, resilience, hope, and triumph” (Los Angeles Review of Books) about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights—which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU’s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU’s stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.

O retorno do mestre do thriller jurídico, em uma trama que envolve o Tribunal Penal Internacional. O advogado Bill Ten Boom largou a carreira, a esposa, o condado de Kindle e até mesmo o país. Porém, quando recebe a oportunidade de trabalhar no Tribunal Penal Internacional — uma organização encarregada de lidar com crimes contra a humanidade —, ele se sente atraído pelo que será o caso mais difícil de sua carreira. Para descobrir o que aconteceu com os moradores desaparecidos de um vilarejo cigano após a Guerra da Bósnia, Boom deve investigar uma série de suspeitos, que vão de organizações paramilitares sérvias ao governo dos Estados Unidos, enquanto interroga todos os envolvidos no caso: um ex-general em desgraça; o único sobrevivente do suposto massacre dos ciganos; e sua advogada.

Rusty Sabich is a married prosecuting attorney whose affair with a colleague comes back to haunt him after she is brutally raped and murdered. Sabich''s professional and personal lives begin to mingle painfully when he is accused of the murder.

Le sénateur Paul Gianis se présente comme maire à Kindle County tandis que son frère jumeau, Cass, est libéré après avoir purgé une peine de vingt-cinq ans de prison pour le meurtre de son ancienne petite amie, Dita Kronon. Lorsque Evon Miller, frère de la victime et responsable de la sécurité pour la société de Hal Kronon et Tim Brodie, détective privé, reprennent l’enquête sur la mort de Dita, ils se retrouvent pris au piège des illusions et confrontés à une vérité sans fard : les gens ne croient que ce qui les arrange. Passion, meurtre et trahison : dans ce superbe roman, Scott Turow, maître incontesté du thriller juridique, revisite avec brio le thème de la gémellité. Traduit de l’anglais par Antoine Chainas

Un thriller adapté en série par Apple TV avec Jake Gyllenhaal. Qui a tué Carolyn, une talentueuse avocate aussi belle que sans scrupules, retrouvée ligotée dans son luxueux appartement ? Viol suivi de meurtre ou crime prémédité ? L''enquête menée en pleine campagne électorale par l''adjoint du procureur Rusty Sabich n''avance pas. Et quand on découvre que cet homme secret et complexe a été l''amant de Carolyn, il fait aussitôt figure de coupable idéal... Un classique du suspense vendu à plusieurs millions d''exemplaires dans le monde, qui a installé d''emblée Scott Turow comme un maître du genre.

Waarom neemt de charmante advocaat Robbie Feaver zelf een advocaat in de hand? De FBI stuit op Robbie’s geheime bankrekeningen en verdenkt hem ervan rechters om te kopen voor zijn eigen rechtszaken. Hij moet als infiltrant meewerken met het onderzoek om bewijs te leveren tegen de corrupte rechters. Tijdens het onderzoek worden hij en de agente Evon Miller steeds hechter en raken hun persoonlijke levens verstrengeld. Zullen ze er samen in slagen de geheime operatie succesvol af te ronden? Scott Turow (1949) is naast schrijver ook partner bij een groot advocatenkantoor in Chicago. Met zijn rijke kennis van recht schreef hij de eerste zogenaamde ‘legal thrillers’. ‘De aanklager’ is het bekendste werk van Turow dat verfilmd is met Harrison Ford in de hoofdrol. Ook boeken als ‘Smartengeld’, ‘Het bewijs’ en ‘De beschuldiging’ zijn niet meer van de boekenplanken weg te denken. Met meer dan dertig miljoen verkochte exemplaren en boeken vertaald naar veertig talen is Turow een van de succesvolste auteurs van de Verenigde Staten.

Spanish translation of "Personal injuries". An FBI operation is held to catch a group of corrupt judges in high places. The central figure is a crooked lawyer who bribed judges on his cases. Nabbed by the IRS for tax evasion, he agrees to be wired and serve as bait in return for a reduced sentence.

The author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Presumed Innocent and The Burden of Proof delivers another stellar bestseller. An ex-cop partner at a high-powered law firm tracks the firm''s star litigator, who has disappeared with $5 million of a client''s money. Don''t miss Turow''s bestselling backlist titles listed below.

The "New York Times" bestseller is now in paperback. Corporate lawyer Arthur Raven is the court-appointed attorney for a Death Row inmate. Convinced his client is innocent thanks to new evidence, Raven is a fervent crusader--and also a rookie in the vicious world of criminal law.

Beim Mordfall June Eddgar, der Exfrau eines Politikers, steht die Richterin Sonia Klonsky vor der schwierigsten Aufgabe ihrer juristischen Laufbahn. Wem soll sie in dem Morast aus Verleumdungen, Intrigen und Machtinteressen glauben?

Carolyn Polhemus, bela, sensual e ambiciosa advogada, é brutalmente assassinada - este crime seria apenas mais um caso de rotina para o promotor público Rusty Sabich, não fosse a vítima seu antigo romance. Além da tarefa ingrata de conduzir as investigações, pesa sobre o promotor a sensação de comprometimento pela aventura amorosa com Carolyn. E é este detalhe que provoca sérias desconfianças em relação a Rusty, que passa a ser o principal suspeito.

L''affascinante Carolyn Polhemus viene violentata e uccisa. Il procuratore incaricato del caso è il suo ex amante. E proprio lui viene accusato dell''omicidio. Un''indagine che sfocia in un processo imprevedibile.