Last Trial, Scott Turow

I always think I'm not a legal thriller girl and then I read one and love the genre all over again. Turow is so good at keeping the court room action moving and his latest is no exception.

Sandy Stern is at the end of a long and distinguished legal career, at 85 he’s ready to retire but there’s one last case to be defended. Stern’s client (and life-long friend) a renowned drug company CEO accused of murder, insider trading and fraud has begged Stern and his daughter Marta’s law firm to act as counsel.

Marta thinks the case is too much for Stern, who is only recently recovered from a serious road accident

Once the trial is underway, amidst the familiar cut and thrust of argument and counter-argument, Stern finds himself wondering if he really knows the defendant at all and what bombshells the witnesses for the prosecution will drop next.