The Last Juror: A Novel by John Grisham – A gripping legal thriller set in the 1970s American South, blending courtroom drama with small-town intrigue. When a young journalist, Willie Traynor, takes over a failing local newspaper in Clanton, Mississippi, he doesn’t expect to cover one of the town’s most shocking crimes—a brutal murder committed by Danny Padgitt, a member of a notorious family.