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An Evening with John Grisham

view options The 34th Edition of the Book Festival of the MJCCA Presents to A Prologue to the Book Festival of the MJCCA Presents:


An Evening with John Grisham, author of The Widow In Conversation with New York Times Bestselling Author Karin Slaughter.


Number one New York Times bestselling author John Grisham is the acclaimed master of the legal thriller.


Now, he’s back with his first-ever whodunit, even more suspenseful than his courtroom dramas, as a small-time lawyer accused of murder races to find the real killer to clear his name. Simon Latch is a lawyer in rural Virginia, making just enough to pay his bills while his marriage slowly falls apart. Then into his office walks Eleanor Barnett, an elderly widow in need of a new will. Apparently, her husband left her a small fortune, and no one knows about it. Once he hooks the richest client of his career, Simon works quietly to keep her wealth under the radar. But soon her story begins to crack. When she is hospitalized after a car accident, Simon realizes that nothing is as it seems, and he finds himself on trial for a crime he swears he didn’t commit: murder. Simon knows he’s innocent. But he also knows the circumstantial evidence is against him, and he could spend the rest of his life behind bars. To save himself, he must find the real killer….


JOHN GRISHAM is the author of more than fifty consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include Framed, Camino Ghosts and The Exchange: After the Firm. Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction. When he's not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system. John lives on a farm in central Virginia.


ABOUT OUR MODERATOR, KARIN SLAUGHTER Karin Slaughter is one of the world’s most popular storytellers. She is the author of more than twenty instant New York Times bestselling novels, including the Edgar-nominated Cop Town and standalone novels The Good Daughter and Pretty Girls. An internationally bestselling author, Slaughter is published in 120 countries with more than 40 million copies sold across the globe. Pieces of Her is now a #1 Netflix original series, Will Trent is now on ABC and streaming on Hulu, The Good Daughter will soon be a limited series starring Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy, and further projects are in development. Karin Slaughter is the founder of the Save the Libraries project—a nonprofit organization established to support libraries and library programming. A native of Georgia, she lives in Atlanta.


There will not be a book signing at this event; all books are presigned. Additional books and backlist will be available for purchase from our partner bookseller, A Cappella Books.
date time location fee age code
date An Evening with John Grisham
Wednesday, 10.22.2025 - 10.22.2025 (1 session)
time 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
location MJCCA Zaban Park fee One Ticket + Signed Book: $50, Two Tickets + One Signed Book: $80 age 18 - 110 Years code #58416 Buy Tickets
Schedule
Wednesday, October 22, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm