Presumed Guilty - Scott Turow

Presumed Guilty

ByScott Turow

  • Release Date: 2025-01-14
  • Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Score: 4.5
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From 1,201 Ratings

Description

An addicting courtroom drama from the #1 bestselling author of Presumed Innocent.

“No one does it better.” ―David Baldacci, #1 NYT bestselling author of Memory Man

★ “This is manna for legal-thriller fans." ―Booklist, starred review 

★ “This easily ranks among Turow’s best."―Publishers Weekly, starred review

Rusty is a retired judge attempting a third act in life with a loving soon-to-be wife, Bea, with whom he shares both a restful home on an idyllic lake in the rural Midwest and a plaintive hope that this marriage will be his best, and his last. But the peace that’s taken Rusty so long to find evaporates when Bea’s young adult son, Aaron, living under their supervision while on probation for drug possession, disappears. If Aaron doesn’t return soon, he will be sent back to jail.

Aaron eventually turns up with a vague story about a camping trip with his troubled girlfriend, Mae, that ended in a fight and a long hitchhike home. Days later, when she still hasn’t returned, suspicion falls on Aaron, and when Mae is subsequently discovered dead, Aaron is arrested and set for trial on charges of first-degree murder.

Faced with few choices and even fewer hopes, Bea begs Rusty to return to court one last time, to defend her son and to save their last best hope for happiness. For Rusty, the question is not whether to defend Aaron, or whether the boy is in fact innocent—it’s whether the system to which he has devoted his life can ever provide true justice for those who are presumed guilty.

Reviews

  • Presumed guilty

    5
    By janmueller
    Riveting story with great character development

  • Entertaining

    5
    By Admiral Charles
    Scott Turow certainly knows how to tell a yarn. This serpentine tale has more twists than the road to Portafino.

  • Faithful reader

    5
    By kismet2
    Started a little slow, but not much later stole my interest and didn’t let up.
    Another great Turow book.

  • Too detailed

    1
    By Stubby, chubby old guy
    Not what I was looking forward to. Long on details and slow on activity. I stopped before 80 pages

  • Depressing

    2
    By Amigo73
    Too long

  • Hard to read. Just a bunch of endless details about nothing!

    1
    By too many people dont like this
    That’s why it is over 3000 pages. I got less than half thru, and couldn’t take anymore.

  • Remarkable follow up book

    5
    By Dullam
    It is hard to believe how many years after “Presumed Innocent” this is written. It is very clever how the two books are tied together. This book gives good trial details without being overwhelming.

  • Not worth reading unless you need a sleeping aid

    1
    By Rbs1941
    Worst Turow has ever done. Maybe he's just too old but he either needs to go back to writer school or change careers to preacher. At least 50% too many boring, rambling pages.

  • Presumed guilty

    4
    By brooksea
    Too long.

  • Virtue Signaling, Novel Edition

    2
    By BDSwank
    If you can get past the constant bombardment of racism and sociodemographic stereotyping in the author’s “style”, I suspect this is a great read. However, there comes a point where it becomes nauseating and I find myself rolling my eyes, mostly because while the author most likely thinks he’s taking a morally superior righteous stance, it can easily be perceived that he is the guilty party to such societal taboos. (Shooting one’s seIf in the foot) I get it. This technique is not meant to be a reflection of the author, but merely to drive a point home that he deems relevant to the story, but frequency and lengths to which he carries it is completely unnecessary and unintentionally, I would hope, offensive to certain groups of people he deems oppressed. I don’t appreciate it and found myself thinking, “here we go again. What offensive stereotype is he throwing out now” throughout the book. I would hope that this is an anomaly applicable to this particular book, but I suspect that’s not the case. Had I read a review as such, I probably would have passed on the book.

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