In this instant #1 New York Instances bestseller, John Grisham delivers a classic legal thriller-with a twist.

“Terrific…affecting…Grisham has done it again.”-Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post

“A suspenseful thriller blended with powerful themes.”-Associated Press

In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a attorney named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked well past due one night. The killer remaining no clues. There have been no witnesses, nobody with a motive. But the about The Guardians: A Novel police soon came to believe Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a customer of Russo’s.

Quincy was attempted, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languished in prison, preserving his innocence. But nobody was listening. He previously no lawyer, no advocate on the outside. In desperation, he writes a letter to Guardian Ministries, a little nonprofit run by Cullen Post, a lawyer who is also an Episcopal minister.

Guardian accepts only a few innocence instances at a time. Cullen Post moves the united states fighting wrongful convictions and taking on clients overlooked by the system. With Quincy Miller, though, he gets far more than he bargained for. Powerful, ruthless people murdered Keith Russo, and they do not want Quincy Miller exonerated.

They wiped out one lawyer twenty-two years back, and they will kill another without a second thought.