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Rusty Sabich is a prosecuting lawyer in Chicago who enters a nightmare world when Carolyn, a beautiful attorney with whom he has been having an affair, is found raped and strangled. He stands accused of the crime.

This 'insider' book by a Chicago lawyer was one of the great novels of the 1980s, selling more than nine million copies, and was made into a famous film starring Harrison Ford. It's a supremely suspenseful and compelling courtroom drama about ambition, weakness, hypocrisy and American justice.

The Burden of Proof New Edition

by Scott Turow

Published November 1998

One afternoon, the lawyer Sandy Stern returns home to find his wife Clara dead in the garage. From that day, Sandy starts to find out about the woman he was married to for thirty-one years. The lives of all his family will never be the same again. Another blockbuster from the author of Presumed Innocent. Scott Turow, one of America's most brillliant thriller writers, is also a lawyer.