The Burden of Proof

<p><b>'Scott Turow is master of the legal thriller' &ndash; <i>The Guardian</i></b><br><br><b>Full of suspicion and half-truths, <i>The Burden of Proof</i> is Scott Turow's second Kindle County legal thriller. His first Kindle County thriller, <i>Presumed Innocent</i>, is now a major TV series from Apple TV+ starring Jake Gyllenhaal.</b><br><br>One afternoon in late March, Sandy Stern, a brilliant, quixotic defence lawyer, returns home to find his wife Clara dead in the garage. They had been married for thirty-one years.<br><br>Her suicide note leaves him just four words: 'Can you forgive me?' But on 6 March, Clara had expected to live . . .<br><br><b>Praise for Scott Turow:</b><br><br>'Head-and-shoulders above others in the legal thriller genre he created' &ndash; <i>The Observer</i><br><br>