Pleading Guilty

{{Short description|1993 novel by Scott Turow}}

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| name = Pleading Guilty

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| image = File:PleadingGuilty.jpg

| caption = First edition

| author = Scott Turow

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| country = United States

| language = English

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| genre = Legal thriller, crime

| publisher = Farrar Straus & Giroux

| release_date = 1993

| media_type = Print (hardback & paperback)

| pages = 468 pp (first edition, hardback)

| isbn = 9780374234577

| oclc = 442321900

| preceded_by = The Burden of Proof

| followed_by = The Laws of Our Fathers

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Pleading Guilty (1993), is Scott Turow's third novel, and like the previous two it is set in fictional Kindle County.{{Cite web |date=1993-05-31 |title=Pleading Guilty by Scott Turow |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780374234577 |access-date=2024-02-15 |website=www.publishersweekly.com}} The story is a legal thriller about Mack Malloy, a middle-aged lawyer basically waiting to retire, who is 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.

A pilot for a television show based on Pleading Guilty was shot in 2010 but not picked up by the FOX network.