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reversible error a legal mistake made by a trial court which is so significant that an appellate court reviewing the case must set aside the trial court's judgment.... More

A compelling character in his most accomplished story to date, a partner in a law firm is on the trail of a colleague.... More

A compelling and convincing account of a long-term government-run sting operation.... More

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent comes a compelling new legal mystery featuring George Mason from Personal Injuries. Originally commissioned and published in the New York Times Magazine, this edition contains additional material. Life would seem to have gone well fo... More

Hailed as the most suspenseful and compelling novel in decades, PRESUMED INNOCENT brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary citizen facing conviction for the most terrible of all crimes. It's the stunning portrayal of one man's all-too-human, all-consuming fatal attraction for a passio... More

The novel opens with a spectacular drive-by shooting in one of Kindle County's notorious drug-plagued housing projects. The victim is an aging white woman who has been seen there before; within days her son, Nile Eddgar, a probation officer, is charged in connection with the crime—and the reader gr... More

Legal thriller following some of the personal problems of Sandy Stern, the defense lawyer from Turow's first novel. Family drama and financial intrigue.... More

FROM THE PUBLISHER "Stewart knew his father had served in World War II. But when, after his father's death, he discovers 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 and is dr... More

Who killed Carolyn, the beautiful and successful deputy prosecuting attorney, whose dead body is found naked and bound in her fashionable apartment? Was it rape and murder, or, a premeditated crime?... More

An aging white woman is killed in a drive-by shooting. Her son, Nile Eddgar, is charged with her murder. Nile's trial is presided over by Sonia "Sonny" Klonsky, who will be permanently marked by the terrible secrets that come to bear on the case in hand in unforeseeable and explosive ways.... More

Rommy 'Squirrel' Gandolph is an inmate on death row for a 1991 triple murder. His slow progress towards execution is nearing completion when Arthur Raven, a corporate lawyer and Rommy's reluctant representative, receives word of new evidence that will exonerate Gandolph. Arthur's opponent is the f... More

For those who have not been to law school, Turow makes the experience breathe; for those who have, he recalls it vividly. His book is an important document, albeit a personal one, because it raises disturbing questions about the means and ends of legal education.... More

At eighty-five 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 e... More

<P>Scott Turow, #1 New York Times bestselling author and "one of the major writers in America" (NPR), returns with a page-turning legal thriller about an American prosecutor's investigation of a refugee camp's mystifying disappearance. <P>At the age of fifty, former prosecutor Bill ten Boom has wal... More

State Senator Paul Giannis is a candidate for Mayor of Kindle County. His identical twin brother Cass is newly released from prison, 25 years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, Dita Kronon. When Evon Miller, an ex-FBI agent who is the head of security for the Kronon family busine... More

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

Two formidable men collide in this "first-class legal thriller" and New York Times bestseller about a celebrated criminal defense lawyer and the prosecution of his lifelong friend -- a doctor accused of murder (David Baldacci).At eighty-five years old, Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, a brilliant defense la... More

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent and The Last Trial returns with a riveting legal thriller in which a reckless private detective is embroiled in a fraught police scandal. <p><p>For as long as Lucia Gomez has been the police chief in the city of Highland Isle, near Kindl... More

Hailed as the most suspenseful and compelling novel in decades, PRESUMED INNOCENT brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary citizen facing conviction for the most terrible of all crimes. It's the stunning portrayal of one man's all-too-human, all-consuming fatal attraction for a passio... More

The Best American Mystery Stories 2006 deals with the extremes of human passion and its dark consequences. It features twenty-one eminent tales of mystery, crime, and suspense.... More

Showcasing the very best of American crime writing, here are 21 stand-out short stories. Elmore Leonard tells the tale of a young woman who's fled home with a convicted bank-robber. Walter Mosley describes an over-the-hill private detective and his new client, a woman named Karma. C. J. Box explor... More

On September 30, 2003, Calvin was declared innocent and set free from Angola State Prison, after serving 22 years for a crime he did not commit. Like many other exonerees, Calvin experienced a new world that was not open to him. Hitting the streets without housing, money, or a change of clothes, exo... More

Surviving Justice presents oral histories of thirteen people from all walks of life, who, through a combination of all-too-common factors—overzealous prosecutors, inept defense lawyers, coercive interrogation tactics, eyewitness misidentification— found themselves imprisoned for crimes that they did... More

Recalling the great muckrakers of the past, an outraged team of America’s best-selling writers unite to confront the disasters of wrongful convictions. Wrongful convictions, long regarded as statistical anomalies in an otherwise sound justice system, now appear with frightening regularity. But few p... More

¿Quién mató a Carolyn Polhemus? La enérgica, fascinante, sensual y ambiciosa ayudante del fiscal general, Raymond Horgan, ha sido violada y asesinada casi al final de la campaña de su jefe por la reelección. Horgan necesita que el crimen sea esclarecido lo antes posible y para conseguirlo confía las... More