The Reckoning: A Novel

#1 bestselling author John Grisham’s The Reckoning is his most powerful, surprising, and suspenseful thriller yet.
“A murder mystery, a courtroom drama, a family saga . . . The Reckoning is
Grisham’s argument that he’s not just a boilerplate thriller writer.
Most jurors will think the counselor has made his case.”—USA Today
October 1946, Clanton, Mississippi

Pete Banning was Clanton, Mississippi’s favorite son—a decorated World
War II hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father,
neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool
October morning he rose early, drove into town, and committed a shocking
crime. Pete’s only statement about it—to the sheriff, to his lawyers,