Scott Turow

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...

"At 85 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 provide the defining coda to both men's accomplished lives,...

A mayoral candidate's identical twin brother is released from prison 25 years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, a situation that leads to the re-opening of the case.

Stewart Dubinsky knew his father had served in World War II. And he'd been told how he rescued Stewart's mother from the horror of the Balingen concentration camp. But when he discovers, after his father's death, a packet of wartime letters to a former fiancée, and learns of his father's court-martial and imprisonment, he is plunged into the mystery of his family's secret history and driven to uncover the truth about this enigmatic, distant man who'd...

The sequel to "Presumed Innocent", in which the same main character appears. Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, the most celebrated defense lawyer in the Mid-western city where he lives, comes home from a business trip to find that Clara, his wife of 30 years, has committed suicide.

Returning to the now-renowned locale of Kindle County, Scott Turow gives us Mack Malloy, ex-cop, not-quite-ex-drunk, and partner-on-the-wane in one of the country's most high-powered law firms. A longtime ally of the wayward, Mack is on the trail of a colleague, his firm's star litigator, who has vanished with more than five million dollars of a client's money. Mack will descend into the enthralling and ominous heart of a city...taking you with him...

Thirty years after Scott Turow entered law school comes an all new unabridged production of this classic with a special introduction by and interview with the author. One L, Scott Turow's journal of his first year at law school and a bestseller 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;...

Hoe raakt de hoogste rechter van het hof zelf verstrikt in een moordzaak? Wanneer de echtgenote van rechter Rusty Sabich dood op bed ligt, belt hij zijn zoon... 24 uur later. Het lijkt te gaan om een natuurlijke dood, maar het wordt verdacht omdat hij twintig jaar eerder ook betrokken was bij een moordzaak. En waarom vertelde hij zijn zoon niets over het meisje? 'Onschuldig' is een vervolg op 'De aanklager' en vertelt het verhaal van Rusty, die opnieuw...

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.

Wanneer de ter dood veroordeelde Rommy Gandolph zich voorbereid op de doodstraf, komt zijn advocaat Arthur Raven vlak voor de executie met nieuw bewijs. De tegenpartij gaat de strijd aan en wil koste wat het kost voorkomen dat Gandolph op vrije voeten komt te staan. De zaak wordt nog complexer als blijkt dat de rechter net weer vrij is na zijn straf wegens corruptie. Is het nieuwe bewijs sterk genoeg om Gandolph vrij te pleiten?