A review by chan_fry
The Innocent Man by John Grisham

5.0

At the time I read this, I was working at a newspaper in Seminole County, Okla., less than an hour’s drive from the events described in this (true crime) book; I knew a handful of the people involved, including multiple attorneys and investigators. I was amazed at the accuracy of Grisham’s descriptions of their personalities, the surrounding area, the courtrooms, etc.

The narrative itself was gripping, harrowing even, and I couldn’t put the book down. At I time when I regularly took weeks or months to finish a book, I whipped through this one in four days.

(In 2008, I published a longer review on my website.)