Poor Rusty: a year-and-a-half later, he's back in the defendant's chair, this time accused of poisoning his wife. "But the answer is always the same: Because what has lain between then and now – because that time is not fully deserving of being called living." "How, my heart shrieks, how can I be doing this again? How can any human being make another time the same mistake that all but ruined his life?" Rusty asks. Trying to put his finger on what's wrong, he is drawn into an affair with Anna, a law clerk 30 years his junior, though the last time he cheated on his wife he ended up on trial for murder. But despite his success, happiness eludes Rusty he has not "come of age contented". Today, at 60, he is a judge standing for the supreme court and back with his wife, the difficult, bipolar Barbara. Last time around, 39-year-old prosecutor Rusty Sabich was standing trial for the murder of his colleague and lover Carolyn. She was my mother." So Scott Turow lures us into Innocent, the sequel – more than two decades in the making – to his smash hit debut novel Presumed Innocent, the book that sold millions of copies around the world and triggered a flood of legal-eagle thrillers onto the market (it was published in 1987, one year before John Grisham's debut A Time to Kill). The body of a woman is beneath the covers.
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