Paperback, 512 pages
English language
Published by Farrar Straus and Giroux.
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The novel that launched Turow's career as one of America's pre-eminent thriller writers tells the story of Rusty Sabicch, chief deputy prosecutor in a large Midwestern city. With three weeks to go in his boss' re-election campaign, a member of Rusty's staff is found murdered; he is charged with finding the killer, until his boss loses and, incredibly, Rusty finds himself accused of the murder.
Subjects
- Detective and mystery fiction
- legal fiction
- thrillers
- bondage
- murder trials
- Fiction
- Public prosecutors
- Presumption of innocence
- Detective and mystery stories
- Fictions (Law)
- Legal stories
- American Detective and mystery stories
- Lawyers
- Murder
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
- Fiction, legal
- Sabich, rusty (fictitious character), fiction
- Kindle county (imaginary place), fiction
- Stern, alejandro "sandy" (fictitious character), fiction
- Lawyers, fiction
- Kindle County (Imaginary place)