The Confession

by John Grisham
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The epic new legal thriller from international number one bestselling author John Grisham

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When Travis Boyette, a convicted felon, walks into a church in small-town Missouri, he carries with him a terrible secret. Nearly a decade earlier Nicole Yarber, a high school senior with her whole life ahead of her, vanished. For two weeks, her home town stood still as thousands of volunteers combed the alleys and fields and ditches and abandoned buildings. But the search was futile. Nicole's body was never found.Now Donte Drumm, the young black athlete arrested for Nicole's murder, sits on death row. His execution date is set for less than a week's time - and Robbie Flak, the lawyer who's been fighting to prove Donte's innocence for nine years, has spent every penny he ever had trying to get justice for his client. But now he's out of options - unless Travis Boyette's confession can put things right in time. The clock is ticking ...

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Editorial Reviews

"Grisham has come up with yet another near-flawless plot... ****" - Mirror

"John Grisham is of course celebrated for his brilliant legal thrillers and in that field he has few equals...If the customary Grisham tension is reined in here rather than screwed up tight as in such books as The Summons, there is the usual storytelling muscle to match the authorial anger that kick-started the novel." - Barry Forshaw, Daily Express

"The Confession is an airing for the beliefs of the author, but it is also a page-turner. Grisham is careful never to preach ... he never forgets his primary purpose which is to entertain ... Grishamites will find all their buttons pressed." - Barry Forshaw, Independent

"The Confession is a campaigning novel, attacking the death penalty and a way of doing justice (with a malign nexus of thuggish cops, supine judges and officials elected on promises of being hard on crime) that Texas epitomises ... another engrossing, teeming portrait of the Deep South." - John Dugdale, Sunday Times

"Grisham's storytelling genius reminds us that when it comes to legal drama, the master is in a league of his own." - Shari Low, Daily Record

"The format of The Confession may be slow-burn thriller but it is in fact a devastating indictment of so-called justice in the Deep South...This is education and entertainment of the highest order." - Evening Standard

"Nobody knows the inside of a courtroom and the workings of the legal system like a lawyer. That's what makes John Grisham's legal-based thrillers such gripping reading... A master of his genre, Grisham twists and turns you through the legal minefield of last-minute appeals..." - Press Association, Syndicated review

"Full of suspense, it will have you on tenterhooks reading deep into the night." - Stylist

"A masterful storyteller...The Confession stands out as one of the best novels of the year, certainly in this genre, and one of the author's best novels...Brilliant, gripping, superbly written, this is classic Grisham and can stand proudly with the best of his novels." - civilian-reader.blogspot.com

"...another great read from Grisham and a welcome return after what seems like a long break." - www.crimesquad.com

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