num_pages: 640
description: Late one spring afternoon, Alejandro Stern, the brilliant defense lawyer from Presumed Innocent, comes home from a business trip to find that Clara, his wife of thirty years, has committed suicide. In this book, Turow probes the character of this fascinating and complex man as Stern tries to uncover the truth about his wife's life.
language: English
title: The Burden of Proof
titlecomplete: The Burden of Proof
characters: Dixon Hartnell, Silvia Hartnell, Alejandro "Sandy" Stern
genres: Law, Legal Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Novels, Thriller, Contemporary, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 38563
places: The United States of America
series: Kindle County Legal Thriller
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Society of Midland Authors Award
category: Adult Fiction
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux