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

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

The classic legal thriller from the master of the genre

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Scott Turow, Turow Scott
• Editore: Pan Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Raccomandazione d'eta': 18 anni
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 22.05.2014
• EAN: 9781447245063
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-4506-3
• Pagine: 400
• Dimensioni: 130 mm x 200 mm x 40 mm
• Serie: Kindle County
• Categorie: Narrativa > Gialli; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Crime, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, FICTION / Legal, Crime and mystery fiction, US Midwest, North Central & Mid-West States