The Last Juror A Novel

John Grisham

eBook - 2010

#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 TimesIn 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... more