One look at Clarice “Pinky” Granum might cause people to not take her seriously, what with her mohawk, a nail through the nose, and all her tats, but she has great instincts about people and top-rated investigative skills that are needed in Scott Turow’s latest legal thriller, Suspect, coming out September 20.
Pinky is the
granddaughter of Sandy Stern, the lawyer Turow introduced in his novels about fictional Kindle County.
The suspect could be several different people throughout the course of the
book, but the predominant one is Police Chief Lucy Gomez, who is accused of
trading sex for promotions in the Highland Isle Police Department.
An admirer
of the chief, Pinky works for Rik Dudek, the lawyer who is representing Lucy,
who insists that these allegations are part of an ugly smear campaign during an
election year. Dudek takes on the first two accusers and dispenses with them
quickly on the stand. But the third accuser is adamant that the sex-for-rank
scandal is real, and he has a photo to prove it.
Pinky goes
to work using her contacts and her PI’s Bag of Tricks to help the chief put the
allegations to rest while at the same time looking out for herself and Lucy as
certain players seem out to get them. It will take Pinky’s super sharp thinking
skills to keep herself and others alive as the true motives for the sex scandal
smear are revealed.
Lawyer-turned-writer
Scott Turow has again turned in a top-notch thriller with Suspect.
Movies have been based on several of his Kindle County books including Presumed
Innocent, The Burden of Proof, Reversible Errors, and Innocent.
Turow is a native of Chicago.
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