The Burden of Proof

One afternoon in late March, Sandy Stern, the brilliant, quixotic defence lawyer in Presumed Innocent , returns home to find his wife Clara dead in the garage. They have been married for thirty-one years. Her suicide note leaves him just four words - 'Can you forgive me?' But on the 6th March Clara had expected to live . . . 'A delight . . . over 500 pages of suspicion, allegation, detection, false confessions and half-truths . . . tied up so tightly that you're holding your breath in anticipation . . . hugely readable' Observer 'Expert and excellent . . . The Burden of Proof is a new sort of novel - a detective story full of people on the make, on the break or settling for second best: a riveting tale' Evening Standard 'A wonderful read from tight start to taut end' Mail on Sunday

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Scott Turow is the world-famous author of several bestselling novels about the law, from Presumed Innocent to Reversible Errors , as well as the wartime thriller Ordinary Heroes. He has also written an examination of the death penalty, Ultimate Punishment. He lives with his family outside Chicago, where he is a partner in the international law firm of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal.

Zusammenfassung

The classic legal thriller from the master of the genre

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Scott Turow, Turow Scott
• Verlag: Pan Books
• Sprachen: Englisch
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.05.2014
• Thema: Belletristik > Spannung
• EAN: 9781447245063
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-4506-3
• Anzahl Seiten: 400
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahren
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 13 x 20 x 4 cm
• Serie: Kindle County
• Themen: Thriller, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Crime, Crime & mystery, Detective, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, FICTION / Legal, political, Crime and mystery fiction, US Midwest, North Central & Mid-West States, Lawyer, confession, gripping, suspicion, Allegation