The Diane Rehm Book Club: "Presumed Guilty" by Scott Turow

The March 2025 edition of The Diane Rehm Book Club featured a conversation with bestselling author Scott Turow about his latest legal thriller, Presumed Guilty. In 1987, Turow wrote what many consider the gold standard of the modern courtroom drama with his blockbuster, Presumed Innocent, in which prosecutor Rusty Sabich is falsely accused of murdering his mistress. In 2010, Sabich returns, now a judge, in Turow’s follow-up, Innocent. In January Turow released the third book in the series. In it we once again meet Sabich, 76 and retired. He is pulled back into the courtroom to defend his romantic partner’s son against charges that echo his own past. The question at the center of the case becomes not whether the boy is innocent—it is whether the system to which Sabich has devoted his life can ever provide true justice for those who are presumed guilty. Find out more about The Diane Rehm Book Club and register for future events here: https://dianerehm.org/bookclub.