By John Grisham

A time to kill mostly regarded as one of the best novels written by John Grisham.
It’s a suspense thriller based on of course what John Grisham is best at (courtroom brawl). Just that this case, it was a battle of colour and moral grounds almost dividing the fictional town of Clanton.
The book was published in 1989 and was adapted to a screen play in 1996.

The plot of the book is about an African American girl(Tonya Hailey) who was brutally raped by two rednecks, and were murdered in the courtroom in a pre-meditated manner, when the father(Carl Lee) saw that his daughter wasn’t going to get Justice in the ‘white majority town.. With the case looking to be a big story in the country, it attracted numerous gold diggers inclusive of Lawyers, black preachers, the nation’s biggest reporting channels, citizens and the Ku Klux Klan.

After a list of setbacks, the case was seemly won on the ground of people power following the unity among the black population of Clanton and thousand others who came from all around the country to support the defendant, thereby swaying the decision of the jury in their favour.

With the town going against itself and the case looking like it will slip out of their hands, the author carefully orchestrated a master piece that will absolutely blow your mind away. The level of legal action is largely unparalleled by other authors, even by John Grisham, it is believed it’s his best work ever made. It is a good way of taking a look into the past history of America when the blacks were institutionally oppressed and the Ku Klux Klan were still much active (although in this book they were constantly phased out by the black population).

Although the book is a fictious writing it is yet so believable and speaking and does not appear scripted, it’s a fantasy piece that should be on your shelf and on your reading list.

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