Scott Turow's New Book: "Innocent"...a Sequel (Video Interview)

(USA Today)Scott Turow's debut novel, 1987's Presumed Innocent, turned Americans into legal-thriller junkies. It's a national addiction that continues to this day. Turow's brooding tale of a prosecutor named Rusty Sabich on trial for murdering his colleague and former lover, Carolyn Polhemus, was both a page-ripping whodunit and an admired literary novel.

Now Turow has written a sequel.

In Innocent, it has been 20 years since Sabich was acquitted, and he's again charged with murdering a woman. This time, it's his wife, Barbara, who appears to have been poisoned. Familiar — if older — faces reappear in the courtroom, with Tommy Molto heading up the prosecution and the elegant Sandy Stern defending Rusty.

Scott Drake interviews author Scott Turow