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MysteryLarge Print EditionTurow takes his time with his books: one every three years . . . spectacularly worth the wait. starred, Publishers WeeklyThe undisputed king of contemporary legal intrigue offers a sumptuous triple-decker. starred, Kirkus Reviews* A New York Times Bestseller* Literary Guild Main Selection* Doubleday Book Club Main Selection* Mystery Book Club Main SelectionA drive-by shooting of an aging white woman at a gang-plagued housing project sets Turows latest novel in motion. In the ensuing trial, a group of personalities who first met during the upheavals of the 60s reconvene in the courtroom of Sonia Sonny Klonsky. Once again, Turow reveals, as no other writer can, how the law and its mysterious rituals intersect with real life.
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At the close of legal-thriller novelist Scott Turow's second book, The Burden of Proof, Sonia Klonsky was a young prosecutor in Kindle County Courthouse with a failing marriage, an infant daughter, and a single mastectomy. Now, as the narrator of Turow's latest novel, she's a Superior Court Judge presiding over the murder trial of one Nile Eddgar, accused of arranging the slaying of his ghetto-activist mother, June. Turow attempts a sort of social history of the 60s in this ambitious mystery, but the most vivid passages come when the gangbangers of the Black Saints Disciples take center stage.
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The Laws of Our Fathers opens with a spectacular drive-by shooting in one of Kindle County's most notorious drug-plagued housing projects. The victim is an aging white woman who has never been seen there before; within days her son, Nile Eddgar, a probation officer, is charged in connection with the crime. Nile's trial is presided over - and narrated by - Judge Sonia "Sonny" Klonsky, whom Turow's fans will remember from his second novel, The Burden of Proof. It brings together a vivid cast of characters from Sonny's student years during the turbulent sixties, among them Nile's father, Loyell Eddgar, once a leading campus revolutionary, and Sonny's old boyfriend Seth Weissman, who is now a renowned journalist. All have been permanently marked by the heady iconoclasm of their youth; some carry terrible secrets that come to bear on the case at hand in unforeseeable and explosive ways.
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- PublisherG K Hall & Co
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0783819463
- ISBN 13 9780783819464
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages931
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The Laws of Our Fathers Kindle County Legal Thriller #4
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Thorndike Press, Thorndike, ME, 1996
ISBN 10: 0783819463
ISBN 13: 9780783819464
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 6"x9.25". 931 pgs. X-library w/graphics. Cover design by Michael Ian Kaye. Unabridged. Set in 16 pt. Bookman Old Style by Minnie B. Raven. In Kindle County, a woman is killed in an apparent random drive-by shooting. The woman turns out to be the ex-wife of a prominent state senator and an old acquaintance of Judge Sonia Klonsky, on whose desk the case lands. As the pursuit of justice takes bizarre and unusual turns, Judge Klonsky is brought face-to-face with a host of extraordinary personalities and formidable enemies bent on her destruction. Goodreads 3.73. Seller Inventory # 10277
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