Scott Turow does it again with his 2010 sequel to the bestselling novel Presumed Innocent.

Twenty years have passed since the events of the first book and now Rusty is sitting on the bench as a judge and running for his state’s supreme court. However, after having an affair with his paralegal Anna and discovering she has fallen in love with his son, he finds his wife Barbara dead. He is arrested for the crime and is going to be tried by his old foe and now (Acting) Chief Prosecuting Attorney Tommy Molto, who presided over the case last time, but is now joined by Deputy PA Jim Brand. His is reunited with his old attorney Sandy Stern, who is dying of cancer, but is still the amazing legal mind from twenty years ago. The question on everyone’s mind though is: if Rusty did not kill Barbara, then who did?

This novel, like the first one, is filled with brilliant twists and turns. The first book was told in first person entirely by Rusty, but is now told from the perspectives of several of the characters. It is brilliant and masterful, however, when it shifts to Tommy Molto, he now becomes third person narrative. It confused me a bit and I thought it was unusual that it changed narrative so strongly.

Otherwise, Scott Turow’s brilliant legal mind is once again something to consider in this amazing novel.