Pleading Guilty

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Pleading Guilty
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First edition
Author Scott Turow
Country United States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Legal thriller, crime
Publisher Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication date
1993
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages468 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN 9780374234577
OCLC 442321900
Preceded by The Burden of Proof  
Followed by The Laws of Our Fathers  

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.


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