The last juror / Grisham, John

In 1970s Clanton, Mississippi, college dropout Willie Traynor turns a failed small-town paper into a success covering a local rape and murder case and finds his life coming full circle when the man convicted of that crime is paroled nine years after receiving a life sentence and jury members from the trial begin turning up dead.

A convicted rapist and murderer returns to Ford County, Mississippi, seeking revenge on the jurors who dared convict him.

In 1970s Clanton, Mississippi, college dropout Willie Traynor turns a failed small-town paper into a success covering a local rape and murder case and finds his life coming full circle when, nine years after receiving a life sentence for that crime, Danny Padgitt, son of Clanton's most brutally powerful family, is paroled and jury members start turning up dead.