Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Book Reviews of The Laws of Our Fathers

The Laws of Our Fathers
The Laws of Our Fathers
Author: Scott Turow
The Market's bargain prices are even better for Paperbackswap club members!
Retail Price: $26.95
Buy New (Hardcover): $18.39 (save 31%) or
Become a PBS member and pay $14.49+1 PBS book credit Help icon(save 46%)
ISBN-13: 9780374184230
ISBN-10: 0374184232
Publication Date: 10/18/1996
Pages: 534
Rating:
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 51

3.5 stars, based on 51 ratings
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Hardcover
Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review

26 Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

carriej73 avatar reviewed The Laws of Our Fathers on + 34 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I really enjoyed this book - it's a courtroom suspense/mysetry. If you like John Grisham, you'll probably like this one. The author wrote Presumed Innocent (movie made with Harrison Ford). I enjoyed that book also. This one was good suspense, not too easy to figure out, made you want to keep reading.
Puddnp avatar reviewed The Laws of Our Fathers on + 111 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Will keep you reading!
Kmarie avatar reviewed The Laws of Our Fathers on + 529 more book reviews
It was another drive-by shooting in one of Kindle County's most drug-plagued housing projects--but the victim was the ex-wife of a politician. Now this explosive case is about to reunite an unlikely group of men and women who first bonded in the revolutionary fires of the 1960s . . . and show a once-crusading female judge, driven by both her fears and her courage, just how devastating a single wrong choice can be.
reviewed The Laws of Our Fathers on + 31 more book reviews
Excellent
reviewed The Laws of Our Fathers on + 143 more book reviews
ANother Turow home run!
reviewed The Laws of Our Fathers on + 9 more book reviews
One of Turow's best.
reviewed The Laws of Our Fathers on + 19 more book reviews
Excellent, as always for this author.
Rin avatar reviewed The Laws of Our Fathers on + 159 more book reviews
Riveting suspense, legal thriller!
reviewed The Laws of Our Fathers on
A story rooted in the turbulent Vietnam era with concequences in a 1995 murder case. Unusual flashbacks to the 1960's from 1995.
reviewed The Laws of Our Fathers on + 93 more book reviews
LOVE TUROW!
reviewed The Laws of Our Fathers on
The ex-wife of a politician is shot in the projects and a group of 1960's friends reunite to oppose a female judge's wrong decision- a courtroom thriller.
reviewed The Laws of Our Fathers on + 11 more book reviews
really interesting story with some of the usual cast of Turow characters
gigi avatar reviewed The Laws of Our Fathers on + 355 more book reviews
Excellent book.
reviewed The Laws of Our Fathers on + 33 more book reviews
Very good legal thriller
reviewed The Laws of Our Fathers on + 20 more book reviews
Great courtroom thriller about a drive-by shooting in a drug-plagued housing project. The explosive case reunits a group of men and women who bonded in the revolutionary fires of the 1960's.
reviewed The Laws of Our Fathers on
Adrive-by shooting in Kindle County's drug-plagued housing project. The victim is an aging white woman and her son, a probation officer is charged with the crim. Judge Sonia (Sonny) Klonsky (from Burden of Proof) presides at the trial. There are lots of flash backs to her college years as the defense attorney and a reporter used to be her friends in college.

This book is missing the dust cover.
reviewed The Laws of Our Fathers on
A little long and there are a lot of character with their own subplots. I had a little trouble with the ebonics but it was a pretty good read.
BigGreenChair avatar reviewed The Laws of Our Fathers on + 461 more book reviews
Splendid..excellent..his best so far. Hair-raising courtroom thriller but also a nuanced story of crime and punishment . A main selection of the Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club.
reviewed The Laws of Our Fathers on + 62 more book reviews
It was another drive-by shooting in one of Kindle County's most drug-plagued housing projects--but the victim was the ex-wife of a politician. Now this explosive case is about to reunite an unlikely group of men and women who first bonded in the revolutionary fires of the 1960s, and show a once-crusading female judge, driven by both her fears and her courage, just how devastating a single wrong choice can be.
-from the cover
msk1757 avatar reviewed The Laws of Our Fathers on + 14 more book reviews
I'd recommend reading it.
reviewed The Laws of Our Fathers on + 22 more book reviews
It was a drive by shooting in one of the most drug-plagued housing projects. The victim was the wife of the ex-wife of a politician. Now this case is about to reunite an group and show a once crusading female judge. Driven by both her fears and her courage, just have devastating a single wrong choice can be. Recommended.
reviewed The Laws of Our Fathers on + 236 more book reviews
It was another drive-by shooting in one of Kindle County's most drug-plagued housing projects but the victim was the ex-wife of a politician. Now this explosive case is about to reunite an unlikely group of mena and women who first bonded in the revolutionary fires of the 1960's...and show a once-crusading female judge, driven by both her fears and her courage, just how devastating a single wrong choice can be.
sealady avatar reviewed The Laws of Our Fathers on + 657 more book reviews
Amazon.com
At the close of legal-thriller novelist Scott Turow's second book, The Burden of Proof, Sonia Klonsky was a young prosecutor in Kindle County Courthouse with a failing marriage, an infant daughter, and a single mastectomy. Now, as the narrator of Turow's latest novel, she's a Superior Court Judge presiding over the murder trial of one Nile Eddgar, accused of arranging the slaying of his ghetto-activist mother, June. Turow attempts a sort of social history of the 60s in this ambitious mystery, but the most vivid passages come when the gangbangers of the Black Saints Disciples take center stage.
reviewed The Laws of Our Fathers on + 3563 more book reviews
Great book or gift. Novel.
romeo avatar reviewed The Laws of Our Fathers on + 334 more book reviews
It was another drive-by shooting in one of Kindle County's most drug- plagued housing projects-but the victim was the ex-wife of a politician. Now this explosive case is about to reunite an unlikely group of men and women who first bonded in the revolutionary fires of the 1960s...and show a once-crusading female judge, driven by both her fears and her courage,just how devastating a single wrong choice can be.
cedarwoman avatar reviewed The Laws of Our Fathers on + 89 more book reviews
This book was gave to me and I have not read it, and figured someone else would love to have it.