The Laws of Our Fathers

"Legal but not thrilling" according to John C.. Since I loved his earlier books, I was very disappointed by the excruciatingly slow pace of this one. Despite having grown up in the late 1960s myself, I found many if the flashbacks quite boring and not that credible. I felt like I was forcing myself to finish the book and eventually gave up because I didn't really care what happened to the characters. While. "Well written story of good and evil and racial issues." according to MACrewdsm. I think that the book was longer than it needed to be. The story was interesting and i thoroughly enjoyed it but I found myself wondering how much longer it would take to tell it. He has a gift for dialog as is illustrated by the coversation's between the protagonist and his best friend and his coversations with his lover's daughter. His descriptions could be. AWFUL Leslie M. Jeffress Thought book was about a trial. After reading it, not sure what it is. I have enjoyed Turow's past books, but not this one. Not sure why I finished it. I would give it fewer than one star were that possible. Do not recommend this book.

A drive-by shooting of an aging white woman at a gang-plagued Kindle County housing project sets in motion Scott Turow's intensely absorbing novel. With its riveting suspense and idelibly drawn characters, The Laws of our Fathers shows why Turow is not only the master of the modern legal thriller but also one of America's most engaging and satisfying novelists.

Turow attempts a sort of social history of the 60s in this ambitious mystery, but the most vivid passages come when the gangbangers of the Black Saints Disciples take center stage. At the close of legal-thriller novelist Scott Turow's second book, The Burden of Proof, Sonia Klonsky was a young prosecutor in Kindle County Courthouse with a failing marriage, an infant daughter, and a single mastectomy. Now, as the narrator of Turow's latest novel, she's a Superior Court Judge presiding over the murder trial of one Nile Eddgar, accused of arranging the slaying of his ghetto-activist mother, June.