The Last Juror - by John Grisham (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A newspaperman watches as former jurors drop like flies in this riveting legal thriller hailed as "classic Grisham, full of excitement and colorful characters" (The Denver Post).

"One of his best: a thoughtful and atmospheric thriller."--The New York Times

In 1970, Willie Traynor comes to Clanton, Mississippi, in a Triumph Spitfire and a fog of vague ambitions. Within a year, the twenty-three-year-old finds himself the owner of Ford County's only newspaper, famous for its well-crafted obituaries. While the rest of America is in the grips of turmoil, Clanton lives on the edge of another age--until the brutal murder of a young mother rocks the town and thrusts Willie into the center of a storm.

Daring to report the true horrors of the crime, Willie makes as many friends as enemies in Clanton, and over the next decade he sometimes wonders how he got there in the first place. But he can never escape the crime that shattered his innocence or the criminal whose evil left an indelible stain. Because as the ghosts of the South's past gather around Willie, as tension swirls around Clanton, men and women who served on a jury nine years ago are starting to die one by one--as a killer exacts the ultimate revenge.

Review Quotes

Praise for the novels of John Grisham

"John Grisham is about as good a storyteller as we've got in the United States these days."--The New York Times Book Review

"In all of Grisham's best books . . . the reader gets good company, a vigorous runaround and . . . a bit of a legal education."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times

"Grisham's books are smart, imaginative, and funny, populated by complex, interesting people."--The Washington Post

"The law, by its nature, creates drama, and a new Grisham promises us an inside look at the dirty machineries of process and power, with plenty of entertainment."--Los Angeles Times

"John Grisham owns the legal thriller." --The Denver Post

About the Author

John Grisham is the author of numerous #1 bestsellers, including The Firm, A Time to Kill, The Rainmaker, The Innocent Man, The Whistler, The Boys from Biloxi, and many more. His books have been translated into nearly fifty languages. Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction. Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system. He lives on a farm in central Virginia.