Reading order
Kindle County Legal Thriller reading order
- Presumed Innocent1987
- The Burden of Proof1990
- Pleading Guilty1993
- The Laws Of Our Fathers1996
- Personal Injuries1999
- Reversible Errors2002
- Limitations2006
- Innocent2010
- Identical2013
- Testimony2017
- The Last Trial2020
- Suspect2022
- 7.77.7 / 10111 ratings
- Score
- 12 volumes
- Volumes
- 1987–2022
- Published
- about 105 h
- Reading time
- Ongoing
- Status
- Crime & mystery
- Genre
Quick answer

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Publication order
12 volumes1987–2022Ongoing
- Scott Turow, a Chicago lawyer, invented the modern legal thriller with Presumed Innocent: prosecutor Rusty Sabich is charged with murdering a colleague he had an affair with, and tells the story himself.
- It is by far the most read here and was filmed with Harrison Ford.
- Each later book follows a different lawyer or judge from the same fictional Midwestern county; Innocent is a direct sequel.
- Start with Presumed Innocent; the rest can be read in any order.
A plan for the whole series
12 volumes, 5,773 pages, about 105 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 5 months.
- The series is still running; the last volume came out in 2022. You will wait for the next one anyway, so no need to rush.
Stages
7 stages, with 6 short books from outside the series between them. You finish around April 12, 2027, about 3 weeks later than in one go.
- Stage 18 h11 daysby November 9, 2026
- Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 217 habout 3 weeksby December 5, 2026
- 2. The Burden of Proof
- 3. Pleading Guilty
- Short breakThe Emperor's Soul · Brandon Sanderson · 96 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 313 h18 daysby December 27, 2026
- 4. The Laws Of Our Fathers
- Short breakOn Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century · Timothy Snyder · 128 pp. · score 8.4
- Stage 417 habout 3 weeksby January 23, 2027
- 5. Personal Injuries
- 6. Reversible Errors
- Short breakAnimal Farm · George Orwell · 128 pp. · score 8.3
- Stage 517 habout 3 weeksby February 18, 2027
- 7. Limitations
- 8. Innocent
- Short breakTo Be Taught, If Fortunate · Becky Chambers · 153 pp. · score 8.3
- Stage 616 habout 3 weeksby March 16, 2027
- 9. Identical
- 10. Testimony
- Short breakThe Importance of Being Earnest · Oscar Wilde · 102 pp. · score 8.2
- Stage 717 habout 3 weeksby April 12, 2027
- 11. The Last Trial
- 12. Suspect
- The end of the series
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How this plan is calculated
The plan comes from the pages and ratings of each volume: we split the series into stages of about three weeks’ reading, size each break to the stage before it, and read the chance of finishing from how many readers rate the last volume compared with the first. How we work out the plan →
Every volume in order
Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026
Frequently asked questions
Which Kindle County Legal Thriller book is the longest?
“The Laws Of Our Fathers” is the longest at 731 pages; the shortest is “Identical” with 384 pages.
