**#1 bestselling author John Grishamβs _The Reckoning_ is his most powerful, surprising, and suspenseful thriller yet.** **βA murder mystery, a courtroom drama, a family saga . . ._The Reckoning_ is Grishamβs argument that heβs not just a boilerplate thriller writer. Most jurors will think the
The Reckoning: A Novel
β Scribed by John Grisham
- Book ID
- 115223172
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 328 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780385544153
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β¦ Synopsis
John Grisham's The Reckoning is the master storyteller's most powerful, surprising, and accomplished novel yet
"John Grisham is not only the master of suspense but also an acute observer of the human condition. And these remarkable skills converge in The Reckoning --an original, gripping, penetrating novel that may be his greatest work yet."
-- David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon
_October 1946, Clanton, Mississippi
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Pete Banning was Clanton, Mississippi's favorite son--a decorated World War II hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed his pastor and friend, the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder weren't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only...
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