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What is the true crime? The rape and murder, or the conviction and incarceration of an innocent man?
John Grisham is one of those prolific novelists capable of churning out at least one best seller a year. He’s been pretty hit-or-miss for me. I loved The Testament and Bleachers. I love his characters. But The King of Torts and The Broker seemed to be lacking something, what was it… oh yeah, decent endings.
Anyway, he’s taking his writing in a new direction with The Innocent Man, a non-fiction book about the convicton of minor league baseball player Ron Williamson for rape and murder in the state of Oklahoma. Williamson was put on death row, but later exhonerated and released afterthose who believed him innocent were able to secure the DNA evidence to prove it.
Learn more about it at:
The Washington Post…
CBS News…
NPR…
I’ll post my own opinions when I get around to reading it. I’m in the middle of C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy, and I can’t put it down. Not yet…