"The Guardians" by John Grisham would be a great read for someone who enjoys legal thrillers with intricate plots and a sense of urgency. The book's most unique selling point is the way it combines two types of Grisham novels into one: a single lawsuit in a single town mixed with a more picaresque and multistranded approach, which takes in a wider swathe of America. The story is delivered with all of Grisham's signature easy-flowing style, making it a canny and engrossing read that is very good at conveying the complexities of the law in a digestible way.

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In the small north Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues behind. There were no witnesses, no real suspects, no one with a motive. The police soon settled on Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russo’s.Quincy was framed, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languished in prison with no lawyer, no advocate on the outside. Then he wrote a letter to Guardian Ministries, a small innocence group founded by a lawyer/minister named Cullen Post.Guardian handles only a few innocence cases at a time, and Post is its only investigator. He travels the South fighting wrongful convictions and taking cases no one else will touch. With Quincy Miller, though, he gets far more than he bargained for. Powerful, ruthless people murdered Keith Russo, and they do not want Quincy exonerated.They killed one lawyer twenty-two years ago, and they will kill another one without a second thought.

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