![]() Her death and the unexplained financial transaction leave Stern with more questions than answers, holding fast only to the too-vivid memory of his having discovered the deceased Clara in their garage.Īmid Stern's personal tragedy unfolds the increasing encroachment of the legal issues surrounding one of his more problematic clients, Dixon Hartnell, a man of decidely questionable ethics, owner of a large investment corporation, and married to Silvia, one of Stern's sisters. This time, there is no murder, but there is a death the suicide of Sandy's wife, Clara, mated to a seemingly inexplicable withdrawal from her personal trust fund just days before her death. In Turow's "Burden of Proof," we find ourselves three years following the events of "Presumed Innocent" as a spectator in the life of Sandy Stern, the attorney who famously defended Rusty Sabich in the murder trial from the prior story. So Sandy’s safe secure life is turned upside down as he tries to fix his family and tries to keep Dixon, his brother in law, out of gaol.Ī story on a grand scale with a cast of strongly crafted characters many flawed but all so very believable.įollowing the simultaneous written and cinematic success of its predecessor, "Presumed Innocent," Scott Turow again returns to Kindle County for another dramatic exploration of the emotional vagaries of lives wrapped in the curious legal subculture of American society. Sandy needed answers but the more questions he asked the darker the answers became. ![]() When Sandy looked into the box what he saw was a family out of touch with each other and harbouring lots of resentment. When Sandy’s bother in law, Dixon, comes to Sandy with a massive legal problem hanging over his head neither men knew the Pandora’s box that was about to be opened. How, Sandy thought, could this happen on his watch? How could Sandy live in the same house as his wife and have no idea that she was so unhappy that she took her own life. Sandy Stern, a lawyer of some note, arrives home from work to find that his wife has committed suicide. It is more to do with human relationships than the law.Ī family who on the surface seem to be living the good life is in fact dysfunctional at its core. ![]() Book 2 in the Kindle County series published 1990.Īlthough this book would be categorised as a legal thriller it is so much more than that.
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