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SUSPECT
The #1 New York Times 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.
For as long as Lucia Gomez has been the police chief in Kindle County, she has cultivated a spotless reputation, knowing that any woman in law enforcement must walk a precarious line between authority and camaraderie to gain respect. Her strict integrity has made her irreproachable - until now. Three male subordinates have accused her of soliciting sex for advancement opportunities, in an ugly smear campaign designed to destroy her career and put her enemies in powerboth outside the police force and within. With few people left who she can trust, Chief Gomez turns to an old friend, Rik Dudek, to act as her attorney in the federal grand jury investigation.
Clarice "Pinky" Stern, the granddaughter of one of the country's most celebrated defense attorneys, has yet to measure up to Sandy Stern's formidable legacy. Having spent most of her youth experimenting with an impressive array of drugs and failing out of various professions, including the police academy, Pinky knows that in the eyes of most people, she's nothing but a screwup - but she doesn't trust most people's opinions anyway. Moreover, she finally has a respectable-enough job as a licensed P.I. working for Rik, covering mostly minor cases involving workman's comp, DUIs and bar fights. Rik's shabby office and even shabbier cases are a far cry from the kinds of hard-hitting criminal suits her grandfather handled. But their big chance to break through to the big leagues arrives with Chief Gomez's high-profile case.
Guided by her gut instinct and razor-sharp investigative skills, Pinky dives headfirst into a twisted scandal that will draw her into the deepest recesses of the city's criminal networks as well as the human mind. But she will need every scrap of tenacity and courage to dredge up the dark secrets those closest to her are determined to keep hidden.
Scott Turow is the author of many bestselling works of fiction, including The Last Trial, Testimony, Identical, Innocent, Presumed Innocent, and The Burden of Proof, and two nonfiction books, including One L, about his experience as a law student. His books have been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, and have been adapted into movies and television projects. He has frequently contributed essays and op-ed pieces to publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic
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Published 2022-09-27 by Grand Central |