The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town » (Unabridged 8 CDs)

The master of the legal thriller, John Grisham was a criminal and civil lawyer in Mississippi when his first book, A Time to Kill, was published. But it was his next book, The Firm, that became a blockbuster and established him as king of the genre.

In 1982, a 21 year old cocktail waitress in Ada, Oaklahoma, Debra Sue Carter, was raped and murdered. For five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson - a major league drop-out - and his friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder. With no physical evidence, the prosecution's defence was built on hearsay and unreliable testimonies. Dennis Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence; Ron Williamson was sent to Death Row. John Grisham's first work of non-fiction is an exploration of small-town justice gone awry.

The Boston Globe

A PAGE-TURNING AND CHILLING descent into one innocent man's Kafkaesque nightmare of injustice and madness.