Kindle County · Book 1
Presumed Innocent
- Published
- 1 June 1987
- Pages
- 432
- ISBN-13
- 9780140814828
- Type
- novel
About this book
Presumed Innocent (1987, 432 pages) opens the series and follows prosecutor Rusty Sabich after he's charged with murdering a colleague he'd been having an affair with. It was a genuine publishing phenomenon that established Turow -- a practising attorney himself -- as a writer who could make courtroom procedure and legal ethics as tense as any crime plot, and its twist ending became one of the genre's most imitated.
Its place in Kindle County
Presumed Innocent is book 1 in the Kindle County series. It is followed by The Burden of Proof. 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 9780140814828