Grisham: Last Juror
Jul. 9th, 2018 02:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackI read a random John Grisham from a charity shop. It turns out I *have* read this one before, but forgot almost everything apart from the protagonist running a small town newspaper and putting a human interest story on the front page.
In fact, it covers a lot of courtroom proceedings, but there's not a lot of drama in the outcome, it's mostly about "this is how it normally works". The crime is very grisly, a brutal rape and murder, and the culprit is manifestly guilty.
Most of the book is instead covering small town life in the american south, the small town newspaper, and the painful process of desegregation.
IIRC it's a prequel or sequel to another book, written when he wanted to revisit some of the themes, but with more racial awareness.
I'd like to read a few of the best grisham, rather than the ones I happened to stumble across, I should get round to that at some point.
In fact, it covers a lot of courtroom proceedings, but there's not a lot of drama in the outcome, it's mostly about "this is how it normally works". The crime is very grisly, a brutal rape and murder, and the culprit is manifestly guilty.
Most of the book is instead covering small town life in the american south, the small town newspaper, and the painful process of desegregation.
IIRC it's a prequel or sequel to another book, written when he wanted to revisit some of the themes, but with more racial awareness.
I'd like to read a few of the best grisham, rather than the ones I happened to stumble across, I should get round to that at some point.