Scott Turow's Top 3 Books

When you become fond of a genre, you end up meeting other readers who are already back from what is marked as initiatory and begin to tell you about other interesting authors.

Because if we get closer to the legal thriller, to those plots around lawyers very capable of defending God or the Devil, with the argumentative subterfuges that end up generating the most imaginative twists, we all think about John Grisham.

And of course, when you've already dived a lot in the Grisham ocean, there will be someone who will recommend Scott Turow. And certainly that reader friend ends up doing you a favor.

Because Turow, without being as prolific as Grisham, has very interesting novels with that component of suspense between robes and juries, where the truth seems a sophistry to compose changing allegations.

So if you like that game, at times sinister and always disturbing, on the game board of court hearings and extrajudicial goings-on, Turow will be a real discovery.

Scott Turow's Top 3 Recommended Novels

Innocent

Fatality causes innocent defendants to end up stepping on the rail for more or less years (or even end up traveling the green mile to death in states of the USA where the ultimate justice is that death)

Only a good defense can end up demonstrating that point of fatality that makes the defendant be in the worst place at the least appropriate time without having anything to do with the criminalized crime. Something like this happened with Rusty Sabich in the initial novel that preceded this second part. Rusty was a prosecutor who aimed high, but everything was about to be ruined by the shadow of a crime of passion.

On that occasion Rusty could prove that he did not kill his lover ... But now, many years later, doom places him back in the eye of the storm. And this time he doesn't know if he will have enough strength to defend himself because the victim is his own wife, the setting is his conjugal bed and he was there while Barbara lost her life.

Innocent

Ordinary heroes

Leaving the tonic of judicial suspense, Scott Turow immerses us in a mystery novel amid the mists of war, in those spaces sustained in difficult balances between principles and cruelty, between simplistic visions of enemies, fronts and objectives and human considerations that reach far beyond.

What Stewart discovers about his father's life (or rather his participation in the IIWW), confronts him with a character unknown to him. David, the hero, the admired father, now seems to guide him, once dead, to more contradictory but richer aspects, cruder but much more interesting to discover for a son who wants to know his father down to the smallest detail of his personality. .

When Stewart discovers a particular event, a blemish in his father's file, it begins to abound at that moment. What he has to discover about the behavior of his father, who decided to pardon a spy, will lead him towards mysteries that are more closely related to the human condition from the most exciting sensation of the father-son relationship.

Ordinary heroes

Weak point

One of the most heinous court cases in our western "evolved" society is that of rape. What this form of violence implies in terms of regression to dark worlds is faced in the judiciary as a punishment to the human condition still capable of the worst living in society.

Homicide can be limited to thousands of mitigating, aggravating or exonerating circumstances. Rape should have no degrees in its simple atrocity. Judge George Mason faces a rape case in which the certainty of the victim and rapist seems to clarify the path of sentencing.

But Mason himself will find himself surrounded by attacks and even evocations of his past. And everything conspires so that justice can tiptoe around such an obvious case, unless Mason fearlessly faces all kinds of demons.

Weak point
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