Suspect: The scandalous new crime novel from the godfather of legal thriller

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A Times, Express and Daily Mail Book of the Year 2022

The scandalous new novel from the godfather of the legal thriller.

Lucia Gomez is a female police chief in a man's world and she's walked a fine line to succeed at the top. Now a trio of police officers in Kindle County have accused her of soliciting sex for promotions and she's in deep.

Rik Dudek is an attorney and old friend of Lucia's. He's the only one she can trust, but he's never had a headline criminal case. This ugly smear campaign is already breaking the internet and will be his biggest challenge yet.

Clarice 'Pinky' Granum is a fearless PI who plays by her own rules. Her 4-D imagination is her biggest asset when it comes to digging up dirt for Rik but not all locks are best picked.

It's cops against cops in this hive of lies. And it will take more than honeyed words from the defence to change the punchline and save the Chief from her own cell.

Reviews

'Scott Turow is a legend of suspense fiction and Suspect is another surefire hit from the master of the legal thriller' - Steve Cavanagh, bestselling author of the Eddie Flynn series


'Scott Turow set the gold standard for the modern legal thriller' - Wall Street Journal


'One of the major writers in America' - NPR


'No one has illuminated the human side of the legal profession with such precision and care' - Washington Post


'A writer with few peers in any genre' - David Baldacci, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Author Bio

Scott Turow was born in Chicago in 1949. He graduated with high honors from Amherst College in 1970, receiving a fellowship to Stanford University Creative Writing Center which he attended from 1970 to 1972. From 1972 to 1975 Turow taught creative writing at Stanford. In 1975, he entered Harvard Law School, graduating with honors in 1978. From 1978 to 1986, he was an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago, serving as lead prosecutor in several high-visibility federal trials investigating corruption in the Illinois judiciary. In 1995, in a major pro bono legal effort he won a reversal in the murder conviction of a man who had spent 11 years in prison, many of them on death row, for a crime another man confessed to.

Today, he is a partner in the Chicago office of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal an international law firm, where his practice centers on white-collar criminal litigation and involves representation of individuals and companies in all phases of criminal matters. Turow lives outside Chicago