Kindle County · Book 2
The Burden of Proof
- Published
- 1 June 1990
- Pages
- 532
- ISBN-13
- 9780140172829
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Burden of Proof (1990, 532 pages), the second novel, shifts focus to Sandy Stern, one of the recurring attorneys who moves through the Kindle County prosecutor's office, judiciary and defence bar across the series. It followed Presumed Innocent three years earlier.
Its place in Kindle County
The Burden of Proof is book 2 in the Kindle County series. It follows Presumed Innocent. It is followed by Pleading Guilty. 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 9780140172829