Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.

In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, bestselling author Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder McCloskey share 10 harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions. Impeccably researched and grippingly told, Framed offers an inside look at the victims of the United States criminal justice system.

A fundamental principle of the American legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty there is very little room to prove doubt.

Framed shares 10 true stories of men who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, wives and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free.

In each of the stories, Grisham and 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 the corrupt court system that can make them so hard to reverse.

Told with page-turning suspense as only Grisham can deliver, Framed is the story of overcoming adversity when the battle already seems lost, and the deck is stacked against you.

About the authors

John Grisham is the author of 50 consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly 50 languages. His recent books include Camino Ghosts, The Exchange: After the Firm, and his third Jake Brigance novel, A Time for Mercy, which is being developed by HBO as a limited series. Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honoured 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 organisations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system. Grisham lives on a farm in central Virginia.

Jim McCloskey founded Centurion Ministries, the first organization in the world devoted to freeing the wrongly convicted. Since its establishment 40 years ago, Centurion has freed 70 individuals, all of whom spent decades in prison serving life or death sentences for the crimes of others. McCloskey has a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary. His memoir, When Truth Is All You Have, was published by Doubleday in 2020.

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