Innocent, Scott Turow

Evidently it has been 20 plus years since Turow's first novel, Presumed Innocent, hit the market. Now the same characters, older, are involved in an other trial; the young lawyer wrongly accused of murder in the first novel, is now a 60 year old judge accused in the second. One review I read said this book was flawed but gripping. I had a hard time getting into this book, I think because the characters were not as carefully drawn here-possibly because the reader should have known them from before, and I did, but they were not that familiar. And I would have thought Sabich learned his lesson better the first time also. But this is a great story, with surprising twists all the way to the last pages. I can not remember if the first book was told only from Sabich' perspective, but this one is not. We get to meet Sabich son Nat in this book-he must have been a very small child in the first book, but now he is a central character.