Thursday, December 01, 2011

John Grisham, The Confession

Grisham spins great tales with believable characters and gripping legal plots. He's done it again in this book. Keith Schroeder is a Lutheran pastor in a small Kansas town. One day, a haggard character comes to his office with a load on his mind, a confession to make. It involves information that could exonerate a young man who is only 3 days away from execution in Texas. The clock is running, and Keith is catapulted into a rush to save an innocent man. This great read is in the mold of Grisham's earlier book, The Chamber, and he again brings readers face to face with the death penalty and its perils (see also his great non-fiction book, The Innocent Man, if you want to see that he's not sensationalizing). Another Grisham success; I enjoyed reading it and was left thinking. Don't miss it.

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