Book · 1987 · Detective and mystery fiction
Presumed Innocent
- mentions
- 7
- people
- 5
- podcasts
- 2
- episodes
- 7
- recommendations
- 5
Presumed Innocent I think to me is a perfect legal thriller and there's very little technical law in it.
What they say about it
- References author and title“book by Scott Turow”5
The best things said about it
I really love Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow's first novel. Wow. Incredible book.
Patrick Radden Keefe The Book Review · Apr 2026 Go leave this podcast right now and go and read it.
I read all night long when it came out.
It's a great great great powerful last line.
Megyn Kelly The Megyn Kelly Show · Jun 2023 5 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow is a legal thriller centering on a prosecutor accused of murdering his colleague. On The Book Review, Sarah Lyall and Gilbert Cruz discussed the novel, with Sarah passionately urging Gilbert to read it and recalling how she had stayed up reading it all night when it first came out. Patrick Radden Keefe also appeared on The Book Review to express his great love for the author's first novel, calling it an incredible book. Megyn Kelly recommended both the book and its film adaptation on The Megyn Kelly Show while discussing legal thrillers and TV adaptations, and later returned to the story to draw a parallel between the mindset of a killer and the powerful final line of the book. Alafair Burke joined The Book Review to recommend the title as a perfect legal thriller that contains very little technical law. Sarah Lyall had previously mentioned the work on the same podcast during a summer book preview segment. Listeners and hosts consistently highlighted the suspense, the memorable narrative structure, and the gripping nature of the plot.
Every mention
Megyn Kelly everybody saw the movie Presumed Innocent right or read the book by Scott Tero 2
“everybody saw the movie Presumed Innocent right or read the book by Scott Tero”
“Reminded me of the last line of the movie Presumed Innocent. Spoiler alert, if you haven't seen Presumed Innocent or read the Scott Turow book, tune out now because it it's a great great great powerful last line.”
Sarah Lyall well I think it's really old timey Thriller but my sort of ear Thrillers would be Presumed Innocent you kno… 2
“Presumed Innocent by Scott Tero”
“well I think it's really old timey Thriller but my sort of ear Thrillers would be Presumed Innocent you know the scotch hero thing which I read all night long when it came out”
Alafair Burke Presumed Innocent I think to me is a perfect legal thriller and there's very little technical law in it 1
“Presumed Innocent I think to me is a perfect legal thriller and there's very little technical law in it”
Gilbert Cruz And then I picked up um Presumed Innocent. I you know, actually I've Okay, go leave this podcast right now… 1
“And then I picked up um Presumed Innocent. I you know, actually I've Okay, go leave this podcast right now and go and read it. What's wrong with you? Uh Sarah, best book on this podcast maybe four years ago. You told me to read Presumed Innocent and I still haven't.”
Patrick Radden Keefe I really love Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow's first novel. Wow. Incredible book. 1
“I really love Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow's first novel. Wow. Incredible book.”
Other mentions (2: passing, ad reads, own books)
“We know you as the prototype of the lawyer novelist whose books include Presumed Innocent and most recently Testimony.”
“Years later, I, of course, published Presumed Innocent. So, this trial represents, so far as I know, the only time that two lawyers who both wrote number one New York Times bestsellers had ever tried a case against each other.”