Dear Reader, Hope this finds you and yours sheltered and well. Three years ago I published Camino Island. Starring no lawyers, the novel is about priceless manuscripts that are stolen from a prestigious library and make their way through the black market to Bruce Cable, a bookstore owner and rare-book dealer on Camino Island, a …
Dear Reader,
As an author, my experience of one of my books starts with spending a lot of time alone writing it. I enjoy the process very much. But it is work, solitary work. (Read More)
What is left to say about a new John Grisham novel?
Maybe only that John Grisham has done it again.
“The Guardians” is Grisham’s 40th novel; he’s now 64 and has been writing suspense novels pretty much nonstop since “A Time to Kill” was published in 1989. Most of his novels are legal thrillers, but Grisham has also branched out into stories about rare books, sports and medicine. (Read More)
Dear Reader,
A bit of advice: Decline the invitation to zip-line across a crocodile-infested body of water.
Crocodiles are cold-blooded killers. They’ll eat anything, including humans. A pond full of crocodiles plays a small but upsetting part in my new legal thriller, THE GUARDIANS. The incident occurs just about halfway through the book and is based on an anecdote I heard that I take to be true. There you have it, my first trigger warning. (Read More)
But THE RECKONING has finally come! On sale today, an appearance on “CBS This Morning” this morning, and a few tour stops ahead. Thank you, as always, to the best booksellers on Earth and to the most loyal, patient – and discerning – readers in the world! I hope you enjoy this novel. It is …
A number of us at Doubleday have read and published some extraordinary books over the years. But when the manuscript for The Reckoning landed on our desks in June, we devoured it like novices. We were immediately blown away by the scope and the ambition of the novel. Before long we had arrived at this …
Dear Reader, When I published A Time To Kill almost thirty years ago, I never thought about how many books I might eventually write. In fact, I still have no idea. The Reckoning is number 40, and to commemorate that nice round number I am taking readers back to where it all started, to Ford …
I pinch myself all the time at my good fortune to do what I love for a living. As with most authors, I sit alone for months pulling words from the air and putting them on paper. When I’m satisfied with the work, I send it off to my publisher, Doubleday. Months later, I open a box to …
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