Amazon synopsis: Rommy "Squirrel" Gandolph is a Yellow Man, an inmate on death row for a 1991 triple murder in Kindle County. His slow progress toward certain execution is nearing completion when Arthur Raven, a corporate lawyer who is Rommy's reluctant court-appointed representative, receives word that another inmate may have new evidence that will exonerate Gandolph.
Arthur's opponent in the case is Muriel Wynn, Kindle County's formidable chief deputy prosecuting attorney, who is considering a run for her boss's job. Muriel and Larry Starczek, the original detective on the case, don't want to see Rommy escape a fate they long ago determined he deserved, for a host of reasons. Further complicating the situation is the fact that Gillian Sullivan, the judge who originally found Rommy guilty, is only recently out of prison herself, having served time for taking bribes.
Scott Turow's Reversible Errors compelling, multi-dimensional characters take the reader into Kindle County's parallel yet intersecting worlds of police and small-time crooks, airline executives and sophisticated scammers--and lawyers of all stripes. No other writer offers such a convincing true-to-life picture of how the law and life interact, or such a profound understanding of what is at stake--personally, professionally, and morally--when the state holds the power to end a man's life.
My rating: 1 stars.
Content warnings: R. Lots of casual swearing, three murder victim's wounds are described, and the violence is talked about for a few chapters, one victim was raped post mortem, characters have consensual sex with each other freely and often.
(spoilers below)
Thoughts: If everyone had just stopped having sex with each other, maybe there wouldn't have been so many errors to be reversed.
I've never seen a soap opera, much less one about lawyers, but I feel like this is what a lawyer soap opera would look like. The crime was just a backdrop for the lawyer-ing and politicking of the justice system (which actually could have been really interesting), but all that was really just a backdrop for people having sex all the time.
I don't even remember much about the plot. If it had a payoff, it was a weak one. There was just a lot of filth to wade through, without any real reason to bother.
It started out like it could have been interesting. The plot set up was nice. But then they started having sex and it was all downhill from there. And that was in the first five chapters.
Cut out the sex scenes and tighten the plot a bunch and it could have been a decent short novel. As it stands now, there's no reason at all to read it.
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