Book review: Presumed Guilty by Scott Turow
Presumed Guilty by Scott Turow is the third in the Presumed Innocent series which kicked off with its namesake waaaaay back in 1987, followed by Innocent in 2010. I suspect this third installation has something to do with the success of the series on offer this year via AppleTV+. I’ve always thought Turow led the way for other legal procedurals (by the likes of John Grisham, Lisa Scottoline, Steve Martini, Alafair Burke et al) with the original book (not to mention the 1990 movie starring Harrison Ford) positioning courtroom drama and legal thrillers front and centre in print and on the screen in a way we hadn’t seen since Erle Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason series which kicked off in print in the 1930s.
