Presumed Innocent
Scott Turow · first published 1987 · ISBN 9788440667724
A prosecutor investigating a murder finds himself as the prime suspect. Told partly as his courtroom testimony, the book shows a man watching the system he serves turn on him with relentless logic.
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Turow wrote the legal thriller that made careers. It captures paranoia and the cold precision of evidence in a way that still hasn't been matched.