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Presumed Innocent brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary citizen facing conviction for the most terrible of crimes. Prosecutor Rusty Sabich is transformed from accuser to accused when he is handed an explosive case - that of the brutal murder of a woman who happens to be his former lover.

One L, Scott Turow's journal of his first year at law school and a best seller when it was first published in 1977, has gone on to become a virtual bible for prospective law students. Not only does it introduce with remarkable clarity the ideas and issues that are the stuff of legal education; it also brings alive the anxiety and competitiveness, with others and, even more, with oneself, that set the tone in this crucible of character building.

Returning to the now-renowned locale of Kindle County, Scott Turow gives us Mack Malloy, ex-cop, not-quite-ex-drunk, and partner-on-the-wane in one of the country's most high-powered law firms. A longtime ally of the wayward, Mack is on the trail of a colleague, his firm's star litigator, who has vanished with more than five million dollars of a client's money.

In Kindle County, a woman is killed in an apparent random drive-by shooting. The woman turns out to be the ex-wife of a prominent state senator and an old acquaintance of Judge Sonia Klonsky, on whose desk the case lands. As the pursuit of justice takes bizarre and unusual turns, Judge Klonsky is brought face-to-face with a host of extraordinary personalities and formidable enemies bent on her destruction.

Life would seem to have gone well for George Mason. His days as a criminal defense lawyer are long behind him. At 59, he has sat as a judge on the Court of Appeals in Kindle County for nearly a decade. Yet, when a disturbing rape case is brought before him, the judge begins to question the very nature of the law and his role within it. What is troubling George Mason so deeply? Is it his wife's recent diagnosis? Or the strange and threatening e-mails he has started to receive?

Stewart Dubinsky knew his father had served in World War II. And he'd been told how David Dubin (as his father had Americanized the name that Stewart later reclaimed) had rescued Stewart's mother from the horror of the Balingen concentration camp. But when he discovers, after his father's death, a packet of wartime letters to a former fiancee, and learns of his father's court-martial and imprisonment, he is plunged into the mystery of his family's secret history.

Identical, based loosely on the myth of Castor and Pollux, is the story of identical twins, Paul and Cass Giannis, and the complex relationships between their family and their former neighbors, the Kronons. The audiobook focuses principally on events in 2008, when Paul is a candidate for Mayor of Kindle County, and Cass is released from the penitentiary, 25 years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, Athena Kronon.

Analyzing the movement's deep-seated origins in questions that the country has sought too long to ignore, some of the greatest economic minds and most incisive cultural commentators capture the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon in all its ragged glory. They give listeners an on-the-scene feel for the movement as it unfolds while exploring the heady growth of the protests, considering the lasting changes wrought, and recommending reform.

The sequel to the genre-defining, landmark best seller Presumed Innocent, Innocent continues the story of Rusty Sabich and Tommy Molto who are, once again, 20 years later, pitted against each other in a riveting psychological match after the mysterious death of Rusty's wife.

In this vivid account of how his views on the death penalty have evolved, Scott Turow describes his own experiences with capital punishment. Along the way, he provides a brief history of America's relationship with the ultimate punishment, analyzes the potent reasons for and against it, including the role of the victims' survivors, and tells the powerful stories behind the statistics, as he moves from the Governor's Mansion to Illinois' state-of-the art 'super-max' prison and the execution chamber.

At the age of 50, former prosecutor Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his law career, his wife, Kindle County, even his country. Still, when he is tapped by the International Criminal Court - an organization charged with prosecuting crimes against humanity - he feels drawn to what will become the most elusive case of his career.

To Robbie Feaver the law is all about making a play - to a client, a jury, or a judge. But when the flashy, womanizing, multimillion-dollar personal injury lawyer is caught offering bribes, he's forced to wear a wire. Even as the besieged attorney looks after his ailing wife, Feaver must also make tapes that will hurl his friends, his enemies, his city, and a particular FBI undercover agent into a crisis of conscience and law.

Tutto ha inizio con un delitto inspiegabile. L'anziana moglie di un potente senatore viene rinvenuta uccisa in un quartiere dove non avrebbe mai dovuto trovarsi. Dopo pochi giorni viene arrestato suo figlio Nile, considerato il mandante del crimine, ma questo è solo l'inizio di una sconvolgente vicenda avvolta nel mistero.

A cinquant'anni, Bill ten Boom si è lasciato alle spalle tutto ciò che credeva essere importante: il suo lavoro di magistrato, il suo matrimonio, persino il suo paese. Eppure, quando viene invitato alla Corte penale internazionale dell'Aia a partecipare al processo per un crimine di guerra commesso undici anni prima in ex Jugoslavia, Boom si rende conto di trovarsi di fronte al caso più scivoloso della sua carriera. Nel 2004, centinaia di rom che vivevano in un campo per rifugiati in Bosnia sono scomparsi nel nulla.

Rusty Sabich, sessant'anni appena compiuti, presidente della Corte d'Appello della Kindle County e in corsa per un posto alla Corte Suprema statale, è accusato di omicidio. Una mattina, al risveglio, trova la moglie Barbara morta nel letto accanto a lui. Aspetta però quasi un giorno prima di chiamare la polizia e i soccorsi, e non avverte nemmeno suo figlio Nat. Perché? Vuole forse cancellare tracce compromettenti?

Due uomini fuori dal comune, amici da un'intera vita - un famoso avvocato penalista e un celebre medico accusato di omicidio - nell'ultimo faccia a faccia in un'aula di tribunale. A ottantacinque anni, Sandy Stern, un famoso avvocato penalista con problemi di salute dovuti all'età ma la mente e lo spirito intatti, è sul punto di ritirarsi. Ma quando un suo vecchio amico, il dottor Kiril Pafko, acclamato Premio Nobel per la medicina, viene accusato di insider trading, frode e omicidio, Stern decide di difenderlo, in quello che sarà il suo ultimo processo.

A dieci anni di distanza da un triplice, terribile delitto per il quale è stato condannato a morte un ladruncolo di colore, l'avvocato Arthur Raven riprende in mano il caso alla vigilia dell'esecuzione della pena capitale. Cerca di far chiarezza su quanto avvenuto, anche grazie al''aiuto del''affascinante Gillian Sullivan, il giudice di quel processo la cui promettente carriera è stata stroncata da una condanna per corruzione. Tra gli ostacoli ci sono, però, Muriel Wynn, l'agguerrito avvocato dell'accusa, e l'ex amante che dieci anni prima aveva costretto il presunto colpevole a confessare.

Una difficile partita del brillante avvocato di "Presunto innocente", che rientrando in casa dopo un viaggio scopre che la moglie si è suicidata. Un romanzo di grande presa emotiva che va oltre i limiti di una storia criminale.

Rusty Sabich, viceprocuratore capo della Contea di Kindle, viene incaricato di svolgere le indagini sullo stupro e l'omicidio di una sua collega, Carolyn Polhemus, una donna energica, affascinante e sensuale, ma anche ambiziosa e di pochi scrupoli. La sua morte è fonte di grave imbarazzo per il procuratore distrettuale Raymond Horgan che, dovendo affrontare le imminenti elezioni per il rinnovo della carica, affida le indagini a Rusty nella speranza che una rapida soluzione del caso salvi la sua vacillante situazione politica.

Turow's acclaimed second novel, which topped international best seller lists, is now available in audio. Sandy Stern, the brilliant defense attorney from Presumed Innocent, faces an event so emotionally shattering that no part of his life is left untouched. It reveals a family caught in a maelstrom of hidden crimes, shocking secrets, and warring passions.