Framed by John Grisham - Hardcover
Framed by John Grisham – Hardcover
A #1 New York Times Bestseller that Will Leave You Gripped and Outraged
Dive into the gripping and heart-wrenching world of Framed, where master storyteller John Grisham teams up with Jim McCloskey, the pioneer of the innocence movement, to unveil ten powerful true stories of wrongful convictions. Known as “the godfather of the innocence movement,” McCloskey joins forces with Grisham to shine a searing spotlight on the cracks in America’s justice system.
These aren’t just stories—they are battles fought by innocent people stripped of their freedom, families, and futures. Each page reveals the resilience of those determined to clear their names and the relentless pursuit of justice against overwhelming odds. Grisham and McCloskey meticulously unravel the devastating mix of flawed testimonies, racial prejudice, prosecutorial misconduct, and systemic corruption that led to these miscarriages of justice.
With the page-turning suspense only Grisham can deliver, Framed goes beyond shock value to illuminate the human cost of injustice. These stories remind us of the fragility of freedom and the extraordinary efforts required to right these wrongs.
If you believe in justice, if you’re fascinated by tales of resilience, or if you simply can’t resist a thrilling, impeccably researched read, Framed is a book you cannot afford to miss.
Author Profile
John Grisham is the author of fifty consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include Camino Ghosts, The Exchange: After the Firm, and his third Jake Brigance novel, A Time for Mercy, which is being developed by HBO as a limited series.
Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.
When he’s not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system.
Grisham lives on a farm in central Virginia.
Jim McCloskey founded Centurion Ministries, the first organization in the world devoted to freeing the wrongly convicted. Since its establishment forty years ago, Centurion has freed seventy individuals, all of whom spent decades in prison serving life or death sentences for the crimes of others. McCloskey has a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary. His memoir, When Truth Is All You Have, was published by Doubleday in 2020.Critic Reviews
“Grisham does a service by elevating Jim McCloskey, who can inspire all of us to use our privilege in the service of those ensnared in the moral scandal we call a criminal justice system. . . . Years before the Innocence Project began showing Americans that their prisons hold countless people who have committed no crime, he was quietly gumshoeing his way through hard, obscure cases. Without him, it’s hard to imagine Serial or Making a Murderer or the rest of our current wave of prosecution-skeptical nonfiction.”—The New York Times
“Framed is Grisham’s second foray into nonfiction and his storytelling skills are well-displayed here. McCloskey is founder of Centurion Ministries, which works to free the wrongly convicted. . . . [The book is] clinical, carefully assembling the stories of those wrongly imprisoned.”—Associated Press
“The flaws and lethal errors that condemn innocent people in the American legal system have caused too many for too long to needlessly suffer. Jim McCloskey and John Grisham are towering figures in law and literature shining an urgent, compelling, and critically important light on the heartbreaking wrongful convictions that compromise our legal system and remain a national tragedy.”—Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy
“Framed should come with a warning label: Be prepared never to look at the justice system the same way again. In this collection of ten shocking wrongful-conviction cases, each stranger than fiction, you’ll come away outraged by how easily so many prosecutions can and do run off the rails: investigative tunnel vision, coached witnesses, compromised jailhouse snitches, junk science, cultural bias, crooked prosecutors, and even biased judges. How grateful we all should be to John Grisham and Jim McCloskey—for raising the alarm and crusading for true justice.”—Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road
“In this essential collaboration, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey vividly demonstrate the need to run just as fast, if not faster, to exonerate the innocent as to punish the guilty. In ten shocking true stories, they not only convey the devastating impact of wrongful convictions on each affected person but also sound the alarm for all of us—there but for the grace of God, go I. These are remarkable stories of injustice that need to be told. And retold.”—Preet Bharara, former U.S. Attorney and author of Doing Justice
“These ten stories—bitter, gritty, and heartbreaking—will astound you, will inspire you, will bring your blood up to a roiling boil. Here are crimes of egregious malfeasance, perpetrated by cops, prosecutors, and jurists, that often seem more sinister than the original crimes these authorities were supposed to impartially resolve. Grisham and McCloskey, writing in crisp, propulsive prose, remind us how much hard and thoughtful work we still have to do to make America’s legal system equitable, transparent, and fair.”—Hampton Sides, author of The Wide Wide Sea
“The truth eventually came out in these cases, but that does little to lessen the impact of this sobering look at what happens when we turn a blind eye to injustice. A powerful and infuriating must-read about ineptitude and injustice in America’s legal system.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Product Details
ISBN: 9780385550444
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Binding: Hardcover
Publication Date: October 15, 2024
Pages: 368
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Dimensions (CM): L24.13W15.98H3.38
Weight (KG): 0.68