In alternate chapters, the book flashes back to Rusty’s recent affair with Carolyn.
Things progress slowly, and Rusty soon suspects that the investigation is being obstructed by Tommy Molto, another attorney. Rusty works closely with the police, notably his best friend Lipranzer ( ‘a duckass hairdo and that look of lurking small-time viciousness that you’ve seen on every no-account kid hanging on a street corner’), and we follow his progress closely as he negotiates the bureaucracy and half-truths surrounding the case.
As Chief Deputy Prosecuting Attorney (PA), Rusty is expected to handle all of the difficult or high-profile cases that come into his department – a murder of a colleague definitely qualifies, especially at a very sensitive time. The book opens with the initial stages of Rusty’s investigation into the murder of his colleague Carolyn Polhemus. As the back cover tells us, ‘he enters a nightmare world when Carolyn, a beautiful attorney with whom he has been having an affair, is found raped and strangled. It is the story of Rusty Sabich, a Prosecuting Attorney in Kindle County, USA. So, onto Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow’s first novel and a ‘NINE-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER’. They’re mainly good – but are they better than contemporary books? You deserve to be reading better books, don’t you? Well, I’m trying to help. This is because I am mainly reading crime novels which have, for whatever reason, stood the test of time. Why should a reader pick up this old book, even seek it out, when they could be reading a more recent one? I’ve decided on a New Year’s Resolution: I am going to try to answer this question about every book I review on Past Offences: First published in the UK 1987, Bloomsbury
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