Pleading Guilty

Pleading Guilty, published in 1993, is Scott Turow's third novel, and like the previous two it is set in fictional Kindle County.

The novel begins with a middle-aged lawyer, basically waiting to retire, being assigned by his firm to track down another attorney who has embezzled millions from the firm and disappeared.

Many of the minor characters in Pleading Guilty also appear in Turow's other novels, which are all set in fictional, Midwestern Kindle County.

A pilot for a television show based on Pleading Guilty was shot in 2010 but not picked up by the Fox network.

Works by Scott Turow
Novels:
  • Presumed Innocent (1987)
  • The Burden of Proof (1990)
  • Pleading Guilty (1993)
  • The Laws of Our Fathers (1996)
  • Personal Injuries (1999)
  • Reversible Errors (2002)
  • Ordinary Heroes (2005)
  • Limitations (2006)
  • Innocent (2010)
Non-fiction:
  • One L (1977)
  • Ultimate Punishment (2003)


Famous quotes containing the words pleading and/or guilty:

    “Sweet, let me go! Sweet, let me go!
    What do you mean to vex me so?
    Cease, cease, cease your pleading force!”
    —Unknown. Sweet, Let Me Go! (L. 1–3)

    “[W]e are all guilty in some Measure of the same narrow way of Thinking ... when we fancy the Customs, Dresses, and Manners of other Countries are ridiculous and extravagant, if they do not resemble those of our own.”
    —Joseph Addison (1672–1719)