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Despite being a really big fan of John Grisham, I was mightily disappointed in the last effort I read “The King of Torts” (see previous review). It’s probably mainly for that reason that until now I had avoided picking up another John Grisham novel. However, at Christmas time, my husband ... Read review

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Last Juror Grisham, John

Last Juror Grisham, John

Danny Padgitt was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to 'life' for a murder in Clanton, ... more

Mississippi. Nine years later, his sentence
complete, he returns to Ford County, and the
promised retribution against the jurors begins.


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A young mother was raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. The ... more

trial of Danny Padgitt came to a dramatic end when
the defendant threatened revenge against the
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AN UNUSUAL FRIENDSHIP

Advantages: Well crafted good story, good plot and strong characterisation
Disadvantages: Loose ends are tied too neatly

...I was mightily disappointed in the last effort I read “The King of Torts” (see previous review). It’s probably mainly for that reason that until now I had avoided picking up another John Grisham novel. However, at Christmas time, my husband always buys me books and there’s usually a pretty good chance of a Grisham book being in with them, as it’s the only name that appears to stay in his memory!

This year he gave me “The Last Juror”. ...
...then I’ve been mulling over the story and how to present my thoughts in this review. There were bits I liked and bits I found a little hard to believe, but I’m pleased to say that overall I feel that this book marked the return of John Grisham into the genius, energetic storyteller that I always believed he was.

I like the way that Grisham always has one central character and that the story and all subsequent plot lines revolve around ... more

fantasybeliever 01.03.2005 (01.03.2005)
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Under Slow Southern Skies

Advantages: People & place
Disadvantages: The blurb!

...patient mismanagement and loving neglect the Ford County Times went bankrupt in 1970." Our narrator goes on to tell us that the owner "Miss Emma" is strapped to a bed in a nursing home in Tupelo, and that her son, Wilson, in his seventies, has a plate in his head from "the First War"…and a propos the resultant scarring has laboured much of life under the nickname 'Spot' He has spent most of the last decade or so writing obituaries. And there you ...
...writer…or is it the art? The ability within less than a page to create an atmosphere. This is the Deep South. The gentle deep south where people are loving, if neglectful…loving, if teasing…people are proud enough to have a County and a County newspaper but not interested enough to understand how their attitudes effect outcomes. This is the Deep South where life - and news - are slow. But this is the Deep South in the early 1970s…and the times - ...

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Early Grisham hits the right note

Advantages: Great page turner
Disadvantages: None

...quote one newspaper critic on the cover - 'the juggonaut that is Grisham' rolls on. This most appropriate epithet to the multi-bestselling list topper, describes one who has sold millions of copies of his blockbusters and who is also, a cracking story teller. For someone who wants a dollop of drama with a spoldge of social commentary thrown into their light fiction, then Grisham is the perfect choice. Not being a frequent flier, I cannot claim to ...
...bit of escapism. The Last Juror takes us back to the early days of Grisham's career. Although published in the mid-1990's, when he was at the height of his career in terms of Hollywood's enthusiasm for adapting his novels to turn them into films starring the likes of Tom Cruise and Julia Roberts (it is suggested that he wrote The Pelican Brief with her in mind), to my knowledge this one has never been adapted. Trained as a lawyer before he turned ...

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Lynne judges Grisham's Jury!

Advantages: A slight return to form
Disadvantages: Not as groundbreaking as his earlier work.

...I was let down by the dreadful Bleachers, which proved a big mistake for Grisham (in my eyes at least), as he moved away from a genre which had made his name, and made him a whole host of fans. Luckily enough, The Last Juror, has gone some way into allowing him to redeem himself. It’s not the best that he has written, but is very good. However, he still fails to capture the passion and suspense which was apparent in The Pelican Brief and The Firm. ...
...Mississippi in the early 70’s, and is the first of his novels to do so since A Time to Kill. The lead character is Willie Traynor, a young and naïve journalist from Memphis. He gets a job as a reporter on a small newspaper; The Ford County Times, in Clanton. The editor is Wilson Caudle, a World War One veteran in his seventies, who loves writing obituaries. Not long after joining the paper, Caudle and his newspaper becomes bankrupt. Spotting a good ...

purplelynne 01.05.2004 (05.05.2004) · Read full review
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Get on the Grisham Juggernaught!

Advantages: Easy and Quick to read
Disadvantages: As mr grisham states,liberty taken with laws!

In 1970, The Ford County Times, a small newspaper in the backwaters of Mississippi went bankrupt. To the surprise of the town ownership was assumed by a 23-year-old college drop out named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked as bleak as its not too distant past, until the brutal rape and murder of a young mother by the notorious and secretive Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reports all the gruesome details and the newspaper begins to prosper. ...
...courtroom in Clanton, Mississippi. The trial climaxes with a threat from Danny, that if the jurors convict him he will exact revenge. Despite this, he is convicted and sentenced to life in prison, but in Mississippi in 1970, life didn't necessarily mean life, and nine years later Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled. He returned to Ford County, and the retribution began. The murder of Rhoda Kassellow and the trial of Danny Padgitt is merely ...

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Nostalgic Grisham

Advantages: A good effort in comparison to recent works
Disadvantages: Weak!

...it is nostalgic. And so, the latest in his long string of novels sees him returning both to the scene of his first, A Time to Kill, and Clanton, Mississippi and the genre of his greatest success with The Last Juror. His brief forays into non-legal fiction, markedly different from his trademark high-tension drama, have fared reasonably well, garnering him new fans of his artful prose, but his name will rightly always be best acknowledged in the realm ...
...back into the drama of the courtroom he has historically so well understood. Protagonist, Willie Traynor is 23, a college dropout and the new owner/editor of backwater community newspaper, The Ford County Times. Soon after his acquisition of the paper, a young mother is raped and murdered, with a member of a local crime family, Danny Padgitt, the apparent perpetrator. The Padgitt clan wields significant influence over the county and has a history ...

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