The book i want to review today is THE JUROR by John Grisham. Novel readers are not strangers to this name, and as everyone knows, Grisham writes wonderful, suspenseful, thrilling, law based novels. When i read this book, i loved it. It was funny, suspenseful... Let me stop ranting. Here is the review or summary, anyone that keeps you going.
Willie Traynor, 23
and a college dropout, is working as a
reporter on a small-town newspaper, the
Ford County Times , in Clanton, Miss.
When the paper goes bankrupt, Willie
turns to his wealthy grandmother, who
loans him $50,000 to buy it. Backed by a
stalwart staff, Willie labours to bring the
newspaper back to health. A month after
his first issue, he gets the story of a
lifetime, the murder of beautiful young
widow Rhoda Kasselaw. After being
raped and knifed, the nude Rhoda
staggered next door and whispered to
her neighbour as she was dying, "Danny
Padgitt. It was Danny Padgitt." The killer
belongs to an infamous clan of crooked
highway contractors, killers and drug
smugglers who live on impregnable
Padgitt Island. Willie splashes the murder all over the Times , making him both an instant success and a marked man. The town is up in arms, demanding Danny's head. After a near miss (the Padgitts are known for buying themselves out of trouble), Danny is convicted and sentenced to life in prison. As he's dragged out of the courtroom, he vows revenge on the jurors. Willie finds, to his consternation, that in Mississippi life doesn't necessarily mean life, so in nine
years Danny is back out—and jurors
begin to die. Around and through this
plot Grisham tells the sad, heroic,
moving stories of the eccentric
inhabitants of Clanton, a small town
balanced between the pleasures and
perils of the old and the new South. The
novel is heartfelt, wise, suspenseful and
funny, one of the best Grisham s ever.
Here is the link to download it, its only in epub version. booklover.heck.in/the-last-juror.xhtml
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