A super-charged, exquisitely suspenseful novel about a vicious triple murder and the man condemned to die for it.
Rommy "Squirrel" Gandolph is a Yellow Man, an inmate on death row for a 1991 triple murder in Kindle County. His slow progress toward certain execution is nearing completion when Arthur Raven, a corporate lawyer who is Rommy's reluctant court-appointed representative, receives word that another inmate may have new evidence that will exonerate Gandolph.
Arthur's opponent in the case is Muriel Wynn, Kindle County's formidable chief deputy prosecuting attorney, who is considering a run for her boss's job. Muriel and Larry Starczek, the original detective on the case, don't want to see Rommy escape a fate they long ago determined he deserved, for a host of reasons. 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.
Scott Turow's compelling, multi-dimensional characters take the reader into Kindle County's parallel yet intersecting worlds of police and small-time crooks, airline executives and sophisticated scammers -- and lawyers of all stripes. No other writer offers such a convincing true-to-life picture of how the law and life interact, or such a profound understanding of what is at stake -- personally, professionally, and morally -- when the state holds the power to end a man's life.

Reversible Errors

TUROW,SCOTT

Literature & Fiction

HarperCollins, Publishers

Ordinary Heroes is a beautifully wrought, finely achieved reconstruction of an elusive, clandestine life-a World War II life, as it happens-by Scott Turrow at the very top of his form. So, be warned, a book to start on a Friday night. Reconstructing the terrible events and agonizing choices his father faced on the battlefield, in the courtroom, and in love, Stewart gains a closer understanding of his past, of his father's character, and of the brutal nature of war itself.

Ordinary Heroes

Literary

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Life has gone well for George Mason. His days as a criminal defence lawyer are long behind him. At 59, 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, Judge Mason begins to question the very nature of the law and his role within it.
What is troubling Mason so deeply? Is it his wife's recent diagnosis or the strange and threatening e-mails he has started to receive? Or is there something in the case, centering around an episode of sexual violence committed four years earlier, that has led him to question his fitness to judge?
In Limitations, #1 New York Times bestselling author Scott Turow returns to Kindle County with a gripping story that asks the biggest questions of all. Playfully and with great economy of style, Turow probes the limitations not only of the law but of human understanding itself.

Limitations

Turow, Scott, Burden Of Proof, The

Burden of Proof

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

HARPER/COLLINS

When last seen in Turow's The Burden of Proof, Sonia Klonsky was a prosecutor in Kindle County Courthouse with a failing marriage, an infant daughter, and a single mastectomy. She becomes the narrator here. Now she is a Superior Court Judge presiding over the murder trial of one Nile Eddgar, who is accused of arranging the murder of his ghetto-activist mother. The story is told in two parallel narratives, one regarding the current trial and the other taking the reader through the 1960s. Many of the minor characters in The Laws of Our Fathers also appear in Turow's other novels, which are all set in fictional, Midwestern Kindle County.

The Laws of Our Fathers

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Scott Turow has again taken his time to produce his newest blockbuster novel. Three years in the making since The Laws of Our Fathers, his previous bestseller, Personal Injuries is another legal thriller of the highest calibre, or as Newsweek commented, "Turow's novels...transcend their genre. They are literature that will last."
Robbie Feaver is one of Kindle County's most successful personal injury lawyers. Expensively cologned, lavishly cocooned in his white Mercedes, he is his own most deeply prized possession. A beautiful, dying wife lying in bed at their elegant home does not stop him from using his considerable masculine charms in a parade of not-so-secret affairs. Robbie's bigger secret is a hidden bank account where he occasionally deposits funds handed over to judges presiding over his - usually successful - cases.
Robbie has been caught, and, in exchange for leniency, agrees to "wear a wire" as he continues to engage in his corrupt pursuit of getting his decisions fixed. Only the FBI insists that someone must shadow his every move during the operation, just to make sure he remains a good boy. That FBI agent goes by the alias of Evon (pronounced "even") Miller, a lonely, uncomfortable-in-her-skin woman whose steely armor seems steadfast against Robbie's maneuvers. Like Robbie, she too has secrets.
As the sting proceeds, in an operation that could topple the entire Kindle County justice system like a house of cards, Robbie and Evon find their lives intersecting - thrillingly, then tragically, with consequences no one - least of all, the reader - could predict.
Scott Turow reveals another expanse of the Kindle County landscape, the world of greed and moral doubt, where the law is often an inadequate tool for balancing the scale of right and wrong. At the same time he uncovers enduring love and unexpected courage, producing a novel that is resonant and moving, a wholly powerful and un-put-down-able drama.

Personal Injuries

New York Times #1 bestselling author Scott Turow returns to fictional Kindle County with his gripping new thriller, Limitations. A t 59, George Mason 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, Judge Mason begins to question the very nature of the law and his role within it. What is troubling Mason so deeply? Is it his wife’s recent diagnosis or the strange and threatening e-mails he has started to receive? Or is there something in the case, centring around an episode of sexual violence committed four years. earlier, that has led him to question his fitness to judge? In Limitations, Turow probes the limitations not only of the law but of human understanding.

The law-student author recounts the workload, conflicts, pressures, anxieties, relationships, and educational content of the critical and difficult first year at Harvard's prestigious and demanding law school

One L: An Insider's View of Harvard Law School

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Presumed Innocent

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Reversible Errors

Ordinary Heroes

Limitations

Burden of Proof

The Laws of Our Fathers

Personal Injuries

Limitations

One L: An Insider's View of Harvard Law School

Presumed Innocent

The Burden of Proof