John Grisham and Jim McCloskey: Framed (USA 2025)

From the Publisher:
John Grisham is known worldwide for his bestselling novels, but it's his real-life passion for justice that led to his work with Jim McCloskey of Centurion Ministries, the first organization dedicated to exonerating innocent people who have been wrongly convicted. Together they offer an inside look at the many injustices in our criminal justice system.

A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty, there is very little room to prove doubt. These ten true stories shed light on Americans who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free. In each of the stories, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey recount the dramatic hard-fought battles for exoneration. They take a close look at what leads to wrongful convictions in the first place and the racism, misconduct, flawed testimony, and corruption in the court system that can make them so hard to reverse.

Impeccably researched and told with page-turning suspense as only John Grisham can deliver, Framed is the story of winning freedom when the battle already seems lost and the deck is stacked against you.

Look for John Grisham's forthcoming legal thriller, The Widow. This time, the verdict isn't the end of the story.

John Grisham and Jim McCloskey: Framed. Astonishing true stories of wrongful convictions. Vintage, ISBN: 9780593687239 (August, 2025), 368 p., $18.00.

John Grisham and Jim McCloskey: Framed (UK 2025)

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TEN TRUE CRIME STORIES
MORE SHOCKING THAN FICTION FROM THE MASTER OF THE LEGAL THRILLER.

All the cases in this book are extraordinary: all are true.

Joe Bryan was tried and found guilty of murdering his wife - despite being 120 miles away at the time.

Clarence Brandley spent years on Death Row before being cleared of all charges.

And the Norfolk Four case saw police continue to arrest innocent people until not one, but four men were behind bars.

Writing with Jim McCloskey, a leading figure within the innocence movement, Framed is an explosive and grippingly told exposé of the US criminal justice system.

John Grisham and Jim McCloskey: Framed. Astonishing true stories of wrongful convictions. Hodder Paperbacks, ISBN: 9781399738637 (May, 2025), 368 p., £9.99.

John Grisham and Jim McCloskey: Framed (UK 2024)

From the Publisher:
TEN STORIES MORE SHOCKING THAN FICTION.
For fans of John Grisham's page-turning legal thrillers, Framed is told with all the conviction of an edge-of-your-seat courtroom drama.

John Grisham's first work of non-fiction since The Innocent Man, Framed uncovers stories that shine an astonishing light on miscarriages of justice. Written with Jim McCloskey, all the cases in this book are simply extraordinary. And all are true.

Joe Bryan suffered the unbearable tragedy of his wife's murder, only to be tried and found guilty of the crime himself - despite being 120 miles away at the time it was committed.

Clarence Brandley spent nine years on Death Row, coming to within six days of execution, before new evidence cleared him of all charges.

And in the case of the Norfolk Four, police and prosecutors continued to arrest innocent people until not one but four men were behind bars.

An instant New York Times bestseller, Framed is an impeccably researched and grippingly told exposé of the US criminal justice system.

John Grisham and Jim McCloskey: Framed. Astonishing true stories of wrongful convictions. Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN: 9781399738590 (October, 2024), 368 p., £25.00, eBook £12.99.

John Grisham and Jim McCloskey: Framed (USA 2024)

From the Publisher:
Using his knack for page-turning suspense, John Grisham teams up with Jim McCloskey to deliver a stark indictment of the flaws in our justice system, centering on a collection of true stories of wrongly convicted individuals and their battles for freedom.

In John Grisham's first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, "the master of the legal thriller" (Associated Press) teams up with Jim McCloskey, "the godfather of the innocence movement" (Texas Monthly), to share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions.

"Each of these stories is told with astonishing power. They are packed with human drama, with acts of shocking villainy and breathtaking courage. But these are more than just gripping true stories -- they are a clarion call for reforming the tragic flaws in our criminal justice system." -- David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon

John Grisham is known worldwide for his bestselling novels, but it's his real-life passion for justice that led to his work with Jim McCloskey of Centurion Ministries, the first organization dedicated to exonerating innocent people who have been wrongly convicted. Together they offer an inside look at the many injustices in our criminal justice system.

A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty, there is very little room to prove doubt. These ten true stories shed light on Americans who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free. In each of the stories, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey recount the dramatic hard-fought battles for exoneration. They take a close look at what leads to wrongful convictions in the first place and the racism, misconduct, flawed testimony, and corruption in the court system that can make them so hard to reverse.

Impeccably researched and told with page-turning suspense as only John Grisham can deliver, Framed is the story of winning freedom when the battle already seems lost and the deck is stacked against you.

John Grisham and Jim McCloskey: Framed. Astonishing true stories of wrongful convictions. Doubleday, ISBN: 9780385550444 (October, 2024), 346 p., $30.00, eBook $14.99.