I don't usually read John Grisham, but my husband brought The Guardians (#887) home from the library and pointed out that the protagonist here was both a lawyer and an Episcopal priest. That was enough to hook me.
Cullen Post found his true calling in working for the fictitious Savannah-based Guardian Ministries. Like the more widely-known Innocence Project, this tiny non-profit works to free prisoners who are wrongly convicted. It takes the group a long time and lots of digging to decide whether or not they will take on a case, but once they do, they dig in. Cullen currently is working on six cases, but his major focus here is on the murder of a lawyer in the small town of Seabrook, Florida. Quincy Miller was tried and convicted for the murder, but the evidence is sketchy at best. The more Post pokes, the more he stirs up facts someone wants to stay buried. Thread by thread Post untangles a web that was woven tightly to deceive. Powerful people with a lot of money plan to keep the murder pinned on Quincey.
I did find this a worthwhile read, filled with interesting characters. I would recommend it to anyone who likes courtroom dramas.
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