Grisham believes his brand of writing is helpful for people looking for an escape from the ongoing pandemic. Book sales - even with most book stores closed - book sales are hanging in there because people are reading more, and that’s always good. It’s a very thick book - probably too thick. And I’ll be finished with that in about a month. “This book is called ‘A Time for Mercy,’ and it’s another trial of the same characters in the small town in Mississippi and all those good colorful characters we love to read about. “Well, since I can’t travel and I can’t go anywhere, I’ve been hard at work on a sequel to ‘A Time to Kill,’ and there was ‘Sycamore Row’ set in Ford County Mississippi - my fictional literary home where I went back to,” Grisham said. Anytime you have a lot of suffering and injustice in a certain area, you can have great fiction because the stories are just irresistible.”įor fans of “A Time to Kill,” Grisham promised the next entry to the series is coming in the fall. It’s the history, you know? It’s a hard history (with) a lot of suffering. Collect the characters, and most of them are based on real people in someway, or collages of people or mixes of people.

I’ve never really lived outside of the south, and there are plenty of them,” Grisham said. “I think you find exotic and eccentric people everywhere. He pulls from those experiences when writing. Grisham’s southern roots are apparent to his fans. It’s we just enjoy, you know, giving back.” They work in various groups around campus. My wife and daughter and son-in-law love UNC. We just again feel very fortunate to be where we are. “Suddenly, overnight, things changed dramatically for us. Where are you going to find the next meal? So, it’s some of that we sort of lived through with Katrina that I was able to put it into this book.” You kind of want to capture that aspect of the day or two or three after the hurricane hits and how unsettled things are. “It’s a major crisis, and that’s a good time to kill somebody.

“The authorities are so distracted with a major problem and there are dead people everywhere, killed by the hurricane. In Camino Winds, the “wind” of Hurricane Leo becomes a central figure. The writer brings back characters, including Bruce Cable, from the first book in the series - Camino Island. The “here we go” includes a cast of characters Grisham likens to overgrown Hardy Boys.

Who did it, how are you going to figure it out? Are they going to catch the bad guys? And here we go,” Grisham said. 1 on the New York Times Best Sellers List for Combined Print and E-book Fiction. His latest novel, Camino Winds, is a classic whodunit that now sits at No. Author John Grisham is still going strong with 43 books and 300 million copies sold.

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