"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.

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...

In The Burden of Proof, Scott Turow probes the fascinating and complex character of Alejandro Stern as he tries to uncover the truth about his wife's life.Late one spring afternoon, Alejandro Stern, the brilliant defense lawyer from Presumed Innocent, comes home from a business trip to find that Clara, his wife of thirty years, has committed suicide.

One L, Scott Turow's journal of his first year at law school and a best-seller when it was first published in 1977, has gone on to become a virtual bible for prospective law students.Not only does it introduce with remarkable clarity the ideas and issues that are the stuff of legal education; it brings alive the anxiety and competiveness--with others and, even more, with oneself--that set the tone in this crucible of character building.Each Septemb...

Scott Turow's Pleading Guilty takes us back to Kindle County, where skies are generally gray and the truth is seldom simple, in an edge-of-the-chair story rife with indelible characters and riveting suspense.The star litigator from a top-notch law firm has gone missing, along with 5.6 million dollars from a class-action settlement, and "Mack" Malloy, a foul-mouthed ex-cop and partner-on-the-wane must find both. Immediately.

A super-charged, exquisitely suspenseful novel about a vicious triple murder and the man condemned to die for itRommy "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.

#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...

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 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...