It's really clever stuff and for a relatively long story moves fast and covers the events from multiple viewpoints. Everyone from the local preachers to the defendant to Jake Brigance himself all have their flaws and less than completely honourable objectives. The great thing is that in building his tangled web of motivations, prejudices and motives he avoids creating any characters that are whiter than white. Some of the twists in this one you'll recognise as having been repeated many times in fiction since. This type of story is Grisham's home patch, street lawyers, prejudice and simply crackling courtroom scenes. Hardly surprising he's fairly prolific so it's pretty unlikely they would all be classics! This however is most definitely classic Grisham, even though I first read it in the nineties the seemingly timeless nature of the southern US states still made it feel fresh again.
John Grisham has written some wonderful books but recently I haven't been quite so enthralled by some of his output.
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