The Appeal: John Grisham

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Mary Grace managed to pluck tissues from a box and hand them over with her left hand while writing furiously with her right.

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He has a list, with the names of his victims and targets, all unsuspecting people unlucky enough to have crossed his path and wronged him in some way. While all of Streenburg anxiously awaits the new trial of infamous murder suspect Pete Duffy, problems arise for their own kid lawyer. Cayhall has run out of chances—except for one: a determined lawyer who just happens to be his grandson. The Appeal is a 2008 novel by John Grisham, his 21st book and his first fictional legal thriller since The Broker was published in 2005.

In what may be the most personal and accomplished legal thriller of John Grisham’s storied career, we deepen our acquaintance with the iconic Southern town of Clanton and the vivid cast of characters that so many readers know and cherish. On February 2, 2002, Stephen King, Pat Conroy, John Grisham and Peter Straub gathered at New York's Town Hall for a very special evening.

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For Neely Crenshaw, a man who must finally forgive his coach—and himself—before he can get on with life, the stakes are especially high. He had long since cut out the silly routine of requiring everyone to stand just so he could assume his throne. Grisham is dealing with perhaps the biggest scandal of the American system: the way that justice can be bought simply because state supreme justices are elected. The moneymen on the other side of the courtroom were not chewing their nails and were not particularly worried about bankruptcy, though it had been discussed. Rocha, behind red-framed reading glasses, gave the quickest, prettiest, most sensational wink Mary Grace would ever receive.Wes and Mary Grace were great gutsy characters, they also were lost in the end (to me) and there was no reward for my reading investment. Three years later, and approaching forty, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change. Samantha’s new job takes her into the murky and dangerous world of coal mining, where laws are often broken, communities are divided, and the land itself is under attack.