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Dec 22, 2014Chapel_Hill_KenMc rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
After his previous legal "thriller," I was ready to give up on Grisham, but he has redeemed himself here. His characters are still rather flat and poorly written, but the novel's crisp, journalistic style lends itself to the riveting plot: an innocent young man on death row, with only a frantic last-minute chance of exoneration. Grisham uses his work with innocence commissions in a couple different states, and his research from his non-fiction book "The Innocent Man," to create this story centered around the efforts of a defense attorney and a horrified preacher, who stumbles upon the real killer in a nine-year-old murder case.