Book description
One afternoon in late March Sandy Stern, the brilliant, quixotic defence lawyer in Presumed Innocent, returns home to find his wife Clara dead in the garage. They have been married for thirty-one years. Her suicide note leaves him just four words – "Can you forgive me?" But on 6 March Clara had expected to live…..
"A delight … over 500 pages of suspicion, allegation, detection, false confessions, and half-truths … tied up so tightly that you’re holding your breath in anticipation … hugely readable" Observer




















