It is Labor Day week-end, September 5, 1982, and Lidia
Giania and her twin sons, Paul and Cass , twenty-five years
of age, are accompanying her at a large party given by Zeus
and Hermione Kronin and their children, son Hal, fortyish,
and daughter Dita. Neither Lidia nor Paul normally attends
this annual function, but Cass is head-over-heels in love
with Zeus' daughter, Dita, and he will be anyplace that she
is; Paul is there to keep his eye on Lidia since she
obviously plans on making some kind of trouble, and she does
not like Dita one iota. But Lidia's best friend since they
were seven-years-old is Zeus' sister, Teri, and hopefully
Lidia just wants to visit with her friend. Paul will be
sworn in to the bar in November and has a job with the
Kindle County DA's office as a deputy prosecuting attorney;
Cass will enter the police academy in about two weeks.
Everyone's lives changed that day when Dita's body was found
later and Cass pled guilty to the murder.
Flash forward to January 8, 2008, the day the Pardons and
Parole Board will hear Cass's parole hearing. Hal Kronin
has a statutory right, as a family member of a homicide
victim, to demand a hearing before a convicted killer is
released. Since Cass has served all but six-months of his
sentence, he will be released on good time. Paul has been
in politics about fifteen years, and is now running for
mayor. Hal is so bitter and emotional about the twins that
he publically libels Paul. Hal's motive is clear -- he
wants Paul to sue him and give Hal just cause for reopening
Dita's murder and this time proving that Paul was somehow
involved.
Scott Turow knows how to twist an ending, as anyone that has
read a book by him or has seen a movie adaptation from a
story by him, and man, the twist to this one is sort of like
playing "Twister". When you choose to read IDENTICAL, you
will be gifted with outstanding characters, wonderful story
plotlines, and rapid fire page turning. Thank you very
much, Mr. Turow, for your wonderful way with words!
State Senator Paul Giannis is a candidate for Mayor of
Kindle County. His identical twin brother Cass is newly
released from prison, 25 years after pleading guilty to the
murder of his girlfriend, Dita Kronon. When Evon Miller, an
ex-FBI agent who is the head of security for the Kronon
family business, and private investigator Tim Brodie begin a
re-investigation of Dita's death, a complex web of murder,
sex, and betrayal-as only Scott Turow could
weave-dramatically unfolds...
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