Identical - Softcover

Turow, Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1455584088 ISBN 13: 9781455584086

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA, 2014

Synopsis

State Senator Paul Giannis is a candidate for Mayor of Kindle County. His identical twin brother Cass is newly released from prison, 25 years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, Dita Kronon. When Evon Miller, an ex-FBI agent who is the head of security for the Kronon family business, and private investigator Tim Brodie begin a re-investigation of Dita's death, a complex web of murder, sex, and betrayal-as only Scott Turow could weave-dramatically unfolds...

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Review:

"It's classic Turow: love, lies, and lawyers." "Good Housekeeping""

"A compulsively readable tale of love, guilt and revenge that may take its cues from the story of Pollux and Castor and other Greek myths but resonates even more strongly with the near-epic Kindle County narrative Turow has created over some three decades. Even when "Identical's" many twists challenge the reader to figure out who's on first, it is Turow's deftly drawn characters - coping with advancing age, old grief and lost love - that linger in the mind."--Los Angeles Times

"Suspense with twists and turns from a master of the form."--Sacramento Bee

"Complexity is the hallmark of Turow's brainy legal thrillers."--USA Today

"Turow has obvious fun with his mythological conceit...the process of discovery takes nice and sometimes unexpected twists. Amid the super modernity of DNA tests, the austerity of case law and the tangles of contemporary politics, Turow never loses sight of the ancient underpinnings of his story...Classic (in more senses than one) Turow."--Kirkus

"A wrenching story of violence, betrayal, and human credibility."--Library Journal

"It's classic Turow: love, lies, and lawyers."--Good Housekeeping

"A tantalizingly tangled web of betrayal, deception and familial love...this twisty who's-who whodunit packs plenty of drama."--Family Circle

"Scott Turow's new novel is the dedicated fiction-reader's version of El Dorado: a driving, unputdownable courtroom drama/murder mystery that is also a literary treasure, written in language that sparkles with clarity and resonates with honest character insight. I came away feeling amazed and fulfilled, as we only do when we read novelists at the height of their powers. Put this one on your don't-miss list." (Praise for Innocent)
--Stephen King

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'An ingenious, beguiling mixture of crime fiction and family saga . . . A novel that starts as a legal thriller turns into a brilliantly plotted whodunit' Sunday Times

Two families entangled in a long and complex history of love and deceit . . .

Twenty- five years ago, after a society picnic held by businessman and politician Zeus Kronon, Zeus' headstrong daughter Dita was found murdered. Her boyfriend, Cass Gianis, confessed to the crime.

Now Cass has been released from prison into the care of his identical twin, Mayoral candidate Paul Gianis, who is in the middle of a high profile political campaign. But Dita's brother Hal is convinced there is information surrounding his sister's death that remains buried - and he won't rest until he's discovered the truth.

Soon Paul Gianis will find himself struggling to hold his campaign together amidst Hal's increasingly damning allegations. But what does the mayoral candidate really have to hide? And why has Cass vanished?

'A compulsively readable tale of love, guilt and revenge' Los Angeles Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1455584088
• ISBN 13: 9781455584086
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 417