"Turning Points" is the product of a grand challenge to the members of Off Campus Writers' Workshop: spend a year working together to create the best writing of your life. Forty-three authors answered the challenge—some had never been published before, some bearing gaudy resumes of literary accomplishments, many in between those extremes. "Turning Points" is the unique product of their labors, and a celebration of 75 years of Off Campus Writers' Workshop.

Now a major TV series from Apple TV+ starring Jake Gyllenhaal.'Scott Turow is master of the legal thriller' – The GuardianFrom the godfather of the legal thriller, Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow is a gripping courtroom drama about ambition, hypocrisy and justice.Carolyn Polhemus was an assistant prosecuting attorney, intelligent and full of promise. When she is found dead – assau...

A Times, Express and Daily Mail Book of the Year 2022The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent returns with a riveting legal thriller in which a reckless private detective is embroiled in a fraught police scandalLucia Gomez is a female police chief in a man's world and she's walked a fine line to succeed at the top. Now a trio of police offic...

**An addicting courtroom drama from the #1 bestselling author of Presumed Innocent.“No one does it better.” ―David Baldacci, #1 NYT bestselling author of Memory Man**★ “This is manna for legal-thriller fans." ―Booklist, starred review★ “This easily ranks among Turow’s best."―Publishers Weekly, starred reviewRusty is a retired judge attempting a third act in life with a loving soon...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Scott Turow returns with a page-turning legal thriller about an American prosecutor's investigation of a refugee camp's mystifying disappearance.At the age of fifty, 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 cr...

Since its introduction in the late 1980s, DNA analysis has revolutionized the forensic sciences: it has helped to convict the guilty, exonerate the wrongfully convicted, identify victims of mass atrocities, and reunite families whose members have been separated by war and repressive regimes. Yet, many of the scientific, legal, societal, and ethical concepts that underpin forensic DNA analysis remain poorly understood, and their application often controversial. Told by over twenty experts i...

California Schemin' is a new anthology of thrilling tales by nineteen of the world's best mystery authors. The official anthology of Bouchercon 2020, it is edited by the award-winning Art Taylor and features brand new works by acclaimed and award-winning writers like Scott Turow, Walter Mosley, Anne Perry, Anthony Horowitz, Cara Black, Janet A. Rudolph, and Catriona McPherson.As the name implies, most tales in California Schemin' features a Californian theme, expl...

**From the #1 bestselling author of Presumed Innocent, two formidable men collide in this heartpounding thriller about a celebrated criminal defense lawyer and the prosecution of his lifelong friend—a doctor accused of murder."A brilliant courtroom chess match." —David Baldacci, #1 bestselling author of A Calamity of Souls"The king of legal thrillers." —Wall Street Journal**At eighty-five years old, Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, a brilliant def...

The #1 New York Times -bestselling legal thriller writer delivers "the most convincing, levelheaded analysis of [the death penalty] I have encountered" ( The Washington Post ).Scott Turow is known to millions as the author of peerless novels about the troubling regions of experience where law and reality intersect. In "real life," as a respected criminal lawyer, he has been involv...

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 people understand just how or why they happen and, more important, the immeasurable consequences that often haunt the lucky few who are acquitted, years after they are pro...

In January 2000, Illinois Governor George Ryan declared a moratorium on executions—the first such action by any governor in the history of the United States.Despite a long history as a death penalty proponent, Ryan was emotionally moved after allowing an execution in 1999. He was also profoundly disturbed by the state’s history—12 men had been executed and 13 had been exonerated since the return of the death penalty in Illinois in 1977. More had been proven innocent than had been e...

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 by The New York Times Magazine, this edition contains additional material.Life would seem to have gone well for George Mason. His days as a criminal defense lawyer are long behind him. At fifty-nine, he has sat as a judge on the Court of Appeal...