Innocent is an intriguing legal thriller by Scott Turow, a true treasure for the fans of the genre. It is a sequel of Turow’s best-selling first fiction novel Presumed Innocent from 1987. In Presumed Innocent, Rozat Sabich, known as Rusty, a married lawyer, is accused of raping and murdering a former lover and co-worker, young and ambitious Carolyn Polhemus.
In Innocent, we see Rusty twenty years later, in 2007, when he is going to run for the State Supreme Court. He is still married to his neurotic wife, Barbara, they stayed together mostly for the sake of their law-school graduate son. Rusty has an affair with a much younger law clerk Anna Vostic. However, one year later Anna leaves him – and starts a relationship with his son Nathan. Soon Barbara is found dead in her bed. Rusty, in a shocked state, cannot contact the outer world for a day, which arose suspicion. Especially Tommy Molto, acting Prosecuting Attorney, who still could not forget that Rusty escaped conviction twenty years ago, doubts that it was a natural death…
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