''Pleading Guilty'', published in 1993, is Scott Turow's third novel, and like the previous two it is set in fictional

Kindle County Scott Frederick Turow (born April 12, 1949) is an American author and lawyer. Turow has written 13 fiction and three nonfiction books, which have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 30 million copies. Turow’s novel ...

. The novel begins with a middle-aged lawyer, basically waiting to retire, being assigned by his firm to track down another attorney who has embezzled millions from the firm and disappeared. Many of the minor characters in ''Pleading Guilty'' also appear in Turow's other novels, which are all set in fictional, Midwestern Kindle County. A pilot for a television show based on ''Pleading Guilty'' was shot in 2010 but not picked up by the Fox network.

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* (the pilot) Kindle County American thriller novels 1993 American novels Novels by Scott Turow Farrar, Straus and Giroux books Novels set in Illinois {{1990s-thriller-novel-stub