The Innocent Man - John Grisham

As a young man, star sportsman Ron Williamson seemed destined for glory.

However, the years were unkind to Williamson and an untimely return to his hometown of Ada, Oklahoma saw him tangled up in a murder charge that would destroy the rest of his life. Despite no physical evidence, Williamson was convicted of the rape and murder of a local cocktail waitress and sent to death row to rot.

Left to await his fate; Williamson was the only person who knew the truth: he was innocent.

'So harrowing and gruesome that it just doesn't seem conceivable. Yet it's true - all of it.

Mirror

'A work of art... this is a terrible and beautiful book.

Sunday Express

'Like Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, The Innocent Man brings a novelist's eye to re-creating a complex chain of events.

Sunday Times