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Defending Jacob

When kids kill: Three new novels explore a parent's worst nightmare

Last updated Sunday, April 8, 2012 - 7:53am

CHICAGO -- There is a hierarchy of personal catastrophe, an informal but definitive ranking of all the terrible things that can happen, moving through categories that might be labeled "Worst Thing" to "Next-Worst Thing" to "Next-to-Next Worst Thing" and on down the line.

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Liked 'Presumed Innocent'? Love 'Defending Jacob'

Oline H. Cogdill Sun Sentinel

Last updated Sunday, February 12, 2012 - 8:31am

"DEFENDING JACOB." By William Landay. Delacorte Press. $26.

Scott Turow's 1987 "Presumed Innocent" was a watershed for the legal thriller, delivering what started out as a typical plot that evolved into a tense look at the law, ethics and revenge, as it moved to a jaw-dropping finale.

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