by Scott Turow
Turow's great insight with the legal procedural, was to make the personal matter as much as what happened in the courtroom. In the end, the story of "Presumed Innocent" was that all law is really personal. Every action, at the end of the day, derives from our personal drives. It is a pleasure to be ...
Although this is the sequel to Presumed Innocent, it is not necessary to have read that one first in order to enjoy Innocent. The characters are reintroduced and fully explored.A major issue with the book is that it took me about 185 pages to get drawn into it completely, but after that, it grabbed ...
This isn't my genre and the book didn't do anything to warm me to it, but it's very much what it is.I thought the time-lines were cute.
Turow does a dandy job--despite this being a direct sequel to his first novel, the tricky and entertaining Presumed Innocent--never giving away too many of the major twists. Good on him. Turow's attention to the slippery ambiguity of our legal system is again meticulously, mesmerizingly deployed fo...
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