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Title: Historical Fiction, not legal suspense
Review: In this novel John Grisham has created an in depth and fascinating study of a small southern town and all its characters, tracking their growth and development over time. He details food, customs, race relations and politics. However, that is most definitely not what I wanted from a Grisham novel with a legal title. I wanted suspense and thrill. This dragged on with Michner-like detail providing occasional clues to the secondary legal plot while chronicling history. The denoument was highly anticlimactic. Read it for lovely historical fiction, but not if you want hardhitting, riveting thrilling suspense.
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