The Racketeer by John Grisham

It's been awhile since I was able to post!  We started a new person at work at the training/backwork has been crazy.  But...I was able to read a great Grisham.

The Racketeer is a story driven by the murder of a federal judge.  He was murdered with his mistress in his cabin, and a hidden safe was emptied.  Malcolm Bannister, a lawyer serving time in prison under the RICO act, knows who did it.  He thinks he was unfairly put in jail (and it seems as though he was just swept up in a huge indictment) and wants to use Rule 35.  Rule 35 is when a prisoner trades information for commuting his time.  He gets the attention of the FBI and starts working with them to help them catch the murdere and get himself out of jail.

I have always been fascinated by politics and the law, so Grisham is a favorite author of mine.  His legal mysteries are just the style I love to read.  In this book, you have the main story, riddled with sub plots, and it all comes together in a twist at the end in typical Grisham style.  I love how his stories seem to take completely unrelated people, and put them together in a way you can't guess.  Sometimes, reading murder mysteries gets frustrating because it becomes easy to deduct the ending, or the characters act too predictably.  Grisham is always a breath of fresh air.  Definitely a great read.

<3, jacquie