Suspense Thriller Annotation

Author - John Grishan

Title - The Guardians

Genre:  Legal Thriller

Publication Date:  2019

Number of Pages: 375

Geographical Setting:  Florida, USA

Time Period:  Present day

Series:  This book is a stand-alone

Plot Summary: This is the story of Quincy Miller, a black man who has been imprisoned for life in the murder of his lawyer. Quincy contacts guardian Ministries, a small non profit run by an attorney, Cullen Post, a lawyer and Episcopal priest. When Quincy and Cullen meet, Quincy has been incarcerated for 23 years. Grisham takes us through small town politics, drug gangs, prison gangs, conspiracies and of course a lot of courtroom drama and legal terms. The story starts out slow for a thriller, but the pace picks up and the reader hopes for Quincy's and Posts's safety and that justice prevails.
This book is a work of fiction, but the idea came from the work of a real ministry that works to free those wrongly incarcerated.

Subject Headings: False imprisonment/fiction, Murder-investigation/fiction, priest/fiction, justice/fiction, African American/fiction, race relations/fiction.

Appeal - 3 terms that best describe this book: Compelling, Dramatic, Intricately plotted.

Similar Authors and words (Why are they similar?):

3 Relevant Fiction Works and Authors

1. Lincoln Lawyer - Michael Connelly
Both of these fiction works are dramatic and intricately plotted. These legal thrillers both involve "frame-ups", innocence and the law.

2. Down the River Into the Sea -Walter Mosley
Again, both books have intricate plots, have themes of "framed" and proving one's innocent and "judicial error."

3. A Criminal Defense- William L. Myers
This title is in the genre legal thrillers and has same subject of lawyers and frame ups.

3 Relevant Non Fiction Works and Authors
1. The Sun Does Shine : How I found Life and Freedom on Death Row.- Anthony Ray Hinton
The subject headings for this book were: trials (murder) - Alabama, Mistaken identity, Death row - Alabama, Capital Punishment, Compensation for Judicial error.

2. What Set Me Free - Brian Banks
This story involves law and order, prisons and inmates and subjects of "Judicial error", "death row inmates" and capital punishment.

3. Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson
This book involves social justice and legal efforts on behalf of those falsely imprisoned. This book recounts the author's work protecting these inmates.