The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence. LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES

“Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment Weekly
 
In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron’s home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered. The investigation led nowhere. Until, on the flimsiest evidence, it led to Ron Williamson. The washed-up small-town hero was charged, tried, and sentenced to death—in a trial littered with lying witnesses and tainted evidence that would shatter a man’s already broken life, and let a true killer go free.
 
Impeccably researched, grippingly told, filled with eleventh-hour drama, The Innocent Man reads like a page-turning legal thriller. It is a book no American can afford to miss.

Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!

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4.3
36 reviews
Christy Kunkle
July 26, 2016
It was very slow read to start. Halfway through, I put the book down as I thought it all seem too familiar from another Grisham book. I picked it back up a couple of months later and the story picked up pace during the last half of the book. I didn't realize it was a true story until the end. I had to give it 4 stars because the last half was great and I love John Grisham's books.
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Stacy McClain
April 17, 2016
I love John Grisham. I have to admit this book in the beginning was a little slow for me, but then you realize that what you are reading is someone's life. It is truly amazing to me what has happened to these people. Ron really went through all this and it's so tragic. In the end, I have to say that I loved this book just as much as all his fiction work. Great job John, keep up the good work!!!
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Stefanie Love
September 18, 2017
It's a good book. It shows our systems flaws. It also shows how when police are pressured to find a suspect anyone will due.. The love his sister had for him. Amazing..
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About the author

John Grisham is the author of forty-seven consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include The Judge's List, Sooley, and his third Jake Brigance novel, A Time for Mercy, which is being developed by HBO as a limited series.
 
Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.
 
When he's not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system.
 
John lives on a farm in central Virginia.

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