Innocent

By: Scott Turow

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann, Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

The sequel to the genre-defining, landmark best seller Presumed Innocent, Innocent continues the story of Rusty Sabich and Tommy Molto who are, once again, 20 years later, pitted against each other in a riveting psychological match after the mysterious death of Rusty's wife.

Rusty is the prime suspect. Reunited with his charismatic lawyer Sandy Stern, he will do anything to convince his beloved son, Nat, of his innocence. But what is he hiding?

In an explosive trial which will expose lies, jealousy, revenge, corruption, and the darker side of human nature, Rusty Sabich and Tommy Molto will battle it out to finally discover the real meaning of truth, and of justice.

©2010 Scott Turow (P)2010 Hachette

Critic reviews

"Mesmerizing prose and intricate plotting lift Turow's superlative legal thriller, his best novel since his bestselling debut, Presumed Innocent....Once again, Turow displays an uncanny ability for making the passions and contradictions of his main characters accessible and understandable." (Publishers Weekly)

Awesome Narration

A narrator can make or break a book. Edward Herrmann is a narrator worth following! No sissy-baby girl voices for females, no exaggerated man voices. Very very easy on the ears for a 2000+ mile drive! Scott Turow’s book was interesting, twisty and had good lessons in it. I recommend this book.

Outstanding

I have been so fortunate to have decided to read this book. I love legal drama and pay dearly to enjoy a good story. I cannot tell you how much money I have wasted on very poor attempts. Every now and then I hit upon a winner and this bool has it all. The storyline is strong, it is interesting and so very plausible . I enjoyed every line and highly recommend the read to all. I will be reading much more of his work very soon.

A True "Sequel"

Don't expect ENTIRELY different characters or plot line. I strongly recommend the original book FIRST.

"Innocent" DID keep ME wondering, until the very end "who-done-it." (I'm a terrible detective.)

As for courtroom drama: 1) At least a HALF of the the book is PURE courtroom or the "behind the scenes".
2) Turrow WAS a high ranking attorney thus his keen observations of courtroom behavior ring true and are *precisely* what we courtroom drama lovers crave.

The gripe: "Too much 'side story'" begs the question, doesn't a novel NEED developed characters? (Esp. other possible murderers?)

My ONE beef (I RARELY complain about narrators) is that while EVERYONE ELSE sounds fine and identifiable, there is NO change in tone one BIT (that I can hear) for "the son" which leads to confusion with the father (if not listening closely for journal type headings.) I think the director expected a SON should SOUND just like his dad (ALL voices are very distinct, I've never heard a kid sound JUST like his older father.) So just THAT narration was poorly directed. Still, you get over it (Just listen for the journal type notes on who is talking now).

The editing (no mouth sounds) is great.

While a 2nd female narrator is advertised, she gets minimal speaking time compared to the male voice.
Many nasty posts likely by other book companies hoping to cause, uh... "reasonable doubt", which is why they come out quickly after the book is released and are brief as they have other books to slam at work). THEY seldom explain WHAT was SO bad! Others just dislike a book but they tend say WHY. No accounting for taste.. "Esp. bad taste" - a cute rejoinder as it can cut BOTH ways.)

Rely on the STARS given (since most don't WRITE reviews) AND then the more thorough reviews.

Innocent

I read Presumed Innocent so long ago that I can't really compare the two. I think Presumed Innocent was better though. This one was pretty darn good. A real page turner. I read it (listened to it) in two days almost non stop.

good follow up

I couldn't stop listening to this book! I would have given it 5 stars, but I guess I was just a wee bit disappointed in the ending. Somehow I was looking for something a little more surprising or in your face... like the end of the first book, Presumed Innocent. Also, one of the reasons I loved this one was because I did read Presumed Innocent recently enough to remember what happened at the end... how Rusty's wife was involved there. I felt her secret should have or would have been exposed somehow. I guess I was disappointed that it wasn't. And if you hadn't read book #1 , I know you could really like this book, but I'm not sure you could love it without book #1. Both of these may not be reasons to take off one star, but somehow that ending just marred it a bit for me. Otherwise, very compelling and interesting!

Too many twists and turns.

Well written and well narrated. At times I felt that there are too many twists and turns in the story but nicely interwoven.

INNOCENT

Turow does it again. Lots of twists and I guessed wrong. That is what Scott is great at doing.

decent

nothing special or exciting. Worth it if you get it on sale. read presumed innocent first

It was ok

Not great, not bad. Buy it on sale, don't waste a full credit! :)

Love Turow, but this is BORING

It starts off OK, but then, it REALLY slows down. In fact, it bogs down. If you've read Presumed Innocent - one of the books I read in one sitting - you know these people. And, if you've read that, you will figure out what happened here really quickly - if you didn't , you'll also figure it out because it's actually pretty obvious. The narration is very good, but it doesn't save it. The pace slows to barely moving, and honestly, the split narration thing just gets really tedious. Not one of Turow's best.