by Scott Turow
I ultimately found this book disappointing given the high expectations I started with. Blurbs trumpeted this book as a "literary" novel of the kind "that transcend their genre" and claimed Turow was comparable to Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. Certainly the prose was stronger than what I exp...
Great page turner. Most of the time I had this feeling that something was terribly wrong, but I couldn't figure out what it was. And I didn't figure it out.
Who killed Carolyn Polhemus, the beautiful, opportunistic and successful Deputy prosecuting Attorney whose body was found nude and bound in her fashionable apartment?Scott Turow is a praticisng lawyer (and former assistant US attorney in Chicago) who was a Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at stanf...
Many people had recommended me to read Scott Turow's books because I love legal thrillers. I was able to finally read this book and now I just wish I had read it earlier than I did. I wish I had read this years ago because after reading recent legal thrillers I feel like this book for me didn't live...
This book has been difficult for me to both read and review. I found the storyline itself to be fascinating, with twists and turns and a shocking ending. Although I enjoyed the storyline, I had a difficult time with the main character, Rusty Sabich. Rusty came across as a woman hater, very crass and...
4.01377495
Presumed Innocent is a riveting tale of murder, politics, corruption, and cover-ups. Rusty Sabich had an affair with a fellow lawyer, who (after parting ways) ends up dead. And guess who is lead prosecuting attorney for the investigation? Don't think too hard...It doesn't take too long before things...
3.5 stars
Presumed Innocent is one of those landmark books that really demonstrated to readers what a legal story, a "law novel" was actually capable of doing. Turow's work in this debut novel is so far above John Grisham's or Steve Martini's popular entertainments of legal "thrillers." In this first novel, T...
Every so often, a new writer comes along to refresh a genre grown stale. Turow brought the mystery/legal thriller back.
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