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Scott Turow

    12 de abril de 1949

    Scott Turow ancla sus narrativas en el sistema legal, infundiéndole una dimensión profundamente humana. Su narrativa está hábilmente construida, llena de giros y una complejidad moral que impulsa a los lectores a la contemplar. A través de sus obras, profundiza en intrincadas disyuntivas éticas y las debilidades humanas que acechan bajo el barniz de un sistema aparentemente perfecto. La prosa de Turow es precisa, atrayendo a los lectores a un mundo rebosante de suspenso y dilemas judiciales.

    Scott Turow
    One L. The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School
    Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
    Identical. Die Erben des Zeus, englische Ausgabe
    Presunto culpable
    Las leyes de nuestros padres
    Presunto inocente
    • 2022

      The bestselling author of Presumed Innocent and The Last Trial returns with a riveting legal thriller in which a reckless private detective is embroiled in a fraught police scandal.

      Suspect
    • 2020
    • 2017

      From the bestselling author of Presumed Innocent comes Testimony, Scott Turow's most twist-filled thriller to date.Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his career, his wife, even his country. Invited to become a prosecutor at The Hague's International Criminal Court, it was a chance to start afresh.But when his first case is to examine the disappearance of four hundred Roma refugees - an apparent war crime left unsolved for ten years - it's clear this new life won't be an easy one . . .Whispered rumours have the perpetrators ranging from Serb paramilitaries to the U.S. Army, but there's no hard evidence to hold either accountable, and only a single witness to say it happened at all. To get to the truth, Boom must question the integrity of every person linked to the case - from Layton Merriwell, a disgraced US Major General, to flirtatious barrister, Esma Czarni - as it soon becomes apparent that every party has a vested interest and no qualms in steering the investigation their way . . .

      Testimony
    • 2016

      Innocent, but imprisoned—troubling stories of wrongful conviction Surviving Justice presents oral histories of thirteen people from all walks of life, who, through a combination of all-too-common factors— overzealous prosecutors, inept defense lawyers, coercive interrogation tactics, eyewitness misidentification—found themselves imprisoned for crimes they did not commit. The stories these exonerated men and women tell are spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately inspiring. Among the narrators: Paul Terry, who spent twenty-seven years wrongfully imprisoned, and emerged psychologically devastated and barely able to communicate. Beverly Monroe, an organic chemist who was coerced into falsely confessing to the murder of her lover. Freed after seven years, she faces the daunting task of rebuilding her life from the ground up. Joseph Amrine, who was sentenced to death for murder. Seventeen years later, when DNA evidence exonerated him, Amrine emerged from prison with nothing but the fourteen dollars in his inmate account.

      Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
    • 2014
    • 2014

      IDENTICAL, based loosely on the myth of Castor and Pollux, is the story of identical twins Paul and Cass Giannis and the complex relationships between their family and their former neighbors, the Kronons. The novel focuses principally on events in 2008, when Paul is a candidate for Mayor of Kindle County, and Cass is released from the penitentiary, 25 years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, Aphrodite Kronon. The plot centers on the re-investigation of Aphrodite's murder, carried out together by Evon Miller, an ex-FBI agent who is the head of security for the Kronon family business ZP, and private investigator Tim Brodie, 81, a former homicide detective. The complex web of murder, sex, and betrayal-as only Scott Turow could weave-dramatically unfolds, and the chilling truth is revealed: people will believe what they want to believe.

      Identical. Die Erben des Zeus, englische Ausgabe
    • 2013

      Identical

      • 371 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      IDENTICAL, based loosely on the myth of Castor and Pollux, is the story of identical twins Paul and Cass Giannis and the complex relationships between their family and their former neighbors, the Kronons. The novel focuses principally on events in 2008, when Paul is a candidate for Mayor of Kindle County, and Cass is released from the penitentiary, 25 years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, Aphrodite Kronon. The plot centers on the re-investigation of Aphrodite's murder, carried out together by Evon Miller, an ex-FBI agent who is the head of security for the Kronon family business ZP, and private investigator Tim Brodie, 81, a former homicide detective. The complex web of murder, sex, and betrayal-as only Scott Turow could weave-dramatically unfolds, and the chilling truth is revealed: people will believe what they want to believe.

      Identical
    • 2008

      Kniha Nejlepší americké detektivní povídky 2 je kvalitní sbírkou pro všechny čtenáře, kteří mají rádi příběh zabývající se extrémními polohami lidských vášní a jejich temnými následky.

      Nejlepší americké detektivní povídky 2
    • 2007

      De grenzen van de wet

      • 223 páginas
      • 8 horas de lectura

      Als een rechter van beroep een uitspraak moet doen in een zaak tegen vier blanke jongens die hun verkrachting van een zwart meisje op video hebben vastgelegd, wordt hij herinnerd aan een gebeurtenis uit zijn verleden.

      De grenzen van de wet