by Aseem Gupta | Jan 30, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham’s The Broker begins with the sort of Washington machinery that made his legal and political thrillers famous, but it soon leaves courtrooms and lobbying offices behind. Originally published by Doubleday in January 2005, the novel follows Joel Backman, a...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 20, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham’s The Last Juror, first published in 2004, looks at first like another murder-and-courtroom story from the author most closely associated with legal thrillers. The crime is horrifying, the accused killer belongs to a feared local family, the trial becomes...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 10, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham’s The Appeal begins where a conventional legal thriller might end. After years of litigation and a seventy-one-day trial, a Mississippi jury finds Krane Chemical responsible for poisoning the water around the town of Bowmore and awards Jeannette Baker $41...
