PRESUMED GUILTY

A superb sexy sequel to Presumed Innocent Sunday Times A legend of suspense fiction Steve Cavanagh The master of the courtroom drama Daniel Silva A writer with few peers in any genre David BaldacciDaily Mail Books to Watch 2025The Times Best Thrillers of 2025 So FarIn a sequel to Presumed Innocent the book that redefined the legal thriller judge and lawyer Rusty Sabich returns to the courtroom to defend his step son against a racially charged murder indictment as the boy s life and perhaps Rusty s last chance at happiness hang in the balance Rusty is a retired judge attempting a third act in life with a loving soon to be wife Bea with whom he shares both a restful home on an idyllic lake in the rural Midwest and a plaintive hope that this marriage will be his best and his last But the peace that s taken Rusty so long to find evaporates when Bea s young adult son Aaron living under their supervision while on probation for drug possession disappears If Aaron doesn t return soon he will be sent back to jail Aaron eventually turns up with a vague story about a camping trip with his troubled girlfriend Mae that ended in a fight and a long hitchhike home Days later when she still hasn t returned suspicion falls on Aaron and when Mae is subsequentl