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BINNENKORT TE ZIEN ALS SERIE, 'PRESUMED INNOCENT', MET JAKE GYLLENHAAL IN DE HOOFDROL.‘De aanklager’ is het eerste boek in Turow’s genre van legal...

Rommy "Squirrel" Gandolph is a Yellow Man, an inmate on death row for a 1991 triple murder in Kindle County. His slow progress toward certain execution is nearing completion when Arthur Raven, a corporate lawyer who is Rommy's reluctant court-appointed representative, receives word that another inmate may have new evidence that will exonerate Gandolph.

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.

When Gage & Griswell's star litigator suddenly disappears - along with $5.6 million of its most important client's money - the assignment of locating both goes to Mack Malloy, a 50ish ex-cop, almost ex-drunk, and partner-on-the-wane at G&G. Mack's search takes him into the inner sanctum of his firm and through the shadowy heart of the city itself, on a path that soon runs him up against his longtime nemesis as he plucks the threads of a dangerous web of corruption, deceit, and murder.

Rusty is a retired judge attempting a third act in life with a loving soon-to-be wife, Bea, with whom he shares both a restful home on an idyllic lake in the rural Midwest and a plaintive hope that this marriage will be his best, and his last. But the peace that's taken Rusty so long to find evaporates when Bea's young adult son, Aaron, living under their supervision while on probation for drug possession, disappears. If Aaron doesn't return soon, he will be sent back to jail.

Qui a tué Carolyn, une talentueuse avocate aussi belle que sans scrupules, retrouvée ligotée dans son luxueux appartement ? Viol suivi de meurtre ou crime prémédité ? L'enquête menée en pleine campagne électorale par l'adjoint du procureur Rusty Sabich n'avance pas. Et quand on découvre que cet homme secret et complexe a été l'amant de Carolyn, il fait aussitôt figure de coupable idéal.

Carolyn Polhemus was an assistant prosecuting attorney, intelligent and full of promise. When she is found dead – assaulted and strangled – the curtain is pulled on a dark, tangled web of sex, corruption and betrayal. Before long, prosecutor Rusty Sabich stands accused of her murder. He was having an affair with Carolyn – the motive seems clear-cut. With no one to trust, it is up to Rusty to uncover the truth behind this deadly crime – and prove his innocence in the process . . .

Rechter Sonia wordt ingehaald door haar verleden wanneer ze over een geruchtmakende moordzaak moet beslissen. Een rijke vrouw uit invloedrijke kringen wordt doodgeschoten in een achterstandswijk en haar zoon Nile, reclasseringsambtenaar van beroep, wordt aangewezen als hoofdverdachte. Sonia kent de betrokkenen uit haar beruchte studietijd in de jaren ‘60 en de zaak brengt haar terug naar diep verdrongen geheimen. Wat had de vermoorde vrouw te zoeken in een ghetto en wat heeft haar zoon hiermee te maken?

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.

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.

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.

At 85 years old, Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, a brilliant defense lawyer with his health failing but spirit intact, is on the brink of retirement. But when his old friend Dr. Kiril Pafko, a former Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, is faced with charges of insider trading, fraud, and murder, his entire life's work is put in jeopardy, and Stern decides to take on one last trial.

Already 85 years old and in precarious health, Stern has been persuaded to defend an old friend, Pavel Pafko. A former Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, Pafko, shockingly, has been charged in a federal racketeering indictment with fraud, insider trading and murder. As the trial progresses, Stern will question everything he thought he knew about his friend. Despite Pafko's many failings, is he innocent of the terrible charges laid against him? How far will Stern go to save his friend and - no matter the trial's outcome - will he ever know the truth?

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?