Books

July, 1993

Successful best-selling novelists have a way of repeating themselves. It is obviously a smart strategy to please the readers who put you on the lists by giving them more of what they like. But stylistic repetition can establish a formula from which some writers never diverge.Scott Turow, a Chicago lawyer-novelist, has no such problem. In his third novel, Pleading Guilty (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), he is deep in the familiar territory of the Kindle County legal system (this time at the law firm of...