Scott Turow verankert zijn verhalen in het rechtssysteem, en geeft het zo een diep menselijke dimensie. Zijn vertelkunst is vakkundig geconstrueerd, vol wendingen en morele complexiteit die lezers tot nadenken stemt. Met zijn werken duikt hij in ingewikkelde ethische vraagstukken en de menselijke zwakheden die schuilgaan onder het mom van een ogenschijnlijk perfect systeem. Turows proza is precies en trekt lezers mee in een wereld vol spanning en juridische dilemma's.
Vermist: Bert Kamin, de begaafde en grillige vennoot van het prestigieuze advocatenkantoor Gage & Griswell. Ook vermist: ruim vijf miljoen dollar - bij Gage & Griswell in bewaring gegeven door de belangrijkste cliënt. De opdracht aan advocaat Mack Malloy, ex-politieman, bijna vijftig, bijna van de drank af en afgeschreven, is duidelijk: zoek Bert en vind het geld., Discreet, maar snel..
IDENTICAL, based loosely on the myth of Castor and Pollux, is the story of identical twins Paul and Cass Giannis and the complex relationships between their family and their former neighbors, the Kronons. The novel focuses principally on events in 2008, when Paul is a candidate for Mayor of Kindle County, and Cass is released from the penitentiary, 25 years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, Aphrodite Kronon. The plot centers on the re-investigation of Aphrodite's murder, carried out together by Evon Miller, an ex-FBI agent who is the head of security for the Kronon family business ZP, and private investigator Tim Brodie, 81, a former homicide detective. The complex web of murder, sex, and betrayal-as only Scott Turow could weave-dramatically unfolds, and the chilling truth is revealed: people will believe what they want to believe.
Innocent, but imprisoned—troubling stories of wrongful conviction Surviving Justice presents oral histories of thirteen people from all walks of life, who, through a combination of all-too-common factors— overzealous prosecutors, inept defense lawyers, coercive interrogation tactics, eyewitness misidentification—found themselves imprisoned for crimes they did not commit. The stories these exonerated men and women tell are spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately inspiring. Among the narrators: Paul Terry, who spent twenty-seven years wrongfully imprisoned, and emerged psychologically devastated and barely able to communicate. Beverly Monroe, an organic chemist who was coerced into falsely confessing to the murder of her lover. Freed after seven years, she faces the daunting task of rebuilding her life from the ground up. Joseph Amrine, who was sentenced to death for murder. Seventeen years later, when DNA evidence exonerated him, Amrine emerged from prison with nothing but the fourteen dollars in his inmate account.
A narrative of the bestselling author's initial year at Harvard Law School.
Rusty Sabich is a prosecuting lawyer in Chicago who enters a nightmare world when a colleague with whom he has been having an affair is found raped and strangled - and he is accused of the crime. This 'insider' book, by a Chicago lawyer, was one of the great crime novels of the 1980s, and a huge international bestseller as well as a successful film.
The 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.
Collection of gritty legal thriller short stories. Authors include Jay Brandon, Lia Matera and Marcia Muller.
In this book, Stewart Dubinsky knew his father, David, had served in World War II, but had been told very little about his experiences. When he finds, after his father's death, a packet of wartime letters to a former fiancée and learns of David's court-ma
