Kindle County · Book 3
Pleading Guilty
- Published
- 1 January 1993
- Pages
- 406
- ISBN-13
- 9780374701185
- Type
- novel

About this book
Pleading Guilty (1993, 406 pages), the third entry, is one of several Kindle County novels that center a different protagonist and read as a standalone case rather than a direct continuation of Presumed Innocent. It followed The Burden of Proof and preceded The Laws of Our Fathers.
Its place in Kindle County
Pleading Guilty is book 3 in the Kindle County series. It follows The Burden of Proof. It is followed by The Laws of Our Fathers. See the full Kindle County reading order.
Scott Turow's Kindle County novels are set in a fictional Illinois county modelled closely on Cook County and Chicago, and they collectively did more than almost any other body of work to define the modern legal thriller. Presumed Innocent (1987) -- following prosecutor Rusty Sabich as he's charged with the murder of a colleague he'd been having an affair with -- was a genuine publishing phenomenon that established Turow, a practising attorney, as a writer who could make courtroom procedure and legal ethics as…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780374701185