Thriller
Crime
1989
A Time to Kill by John Grisham
Published in Spanish as Tiempo de matar
The mostly white town of Clanton in Ford County, Mississippi, reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime—until the girl’s father acquires an assault rifle and takes justice into his own hands.
What it is
A trial at the heart of the story · it tells it with no filter
What happens in it
Courtroom drama
How it feels
Reading sheet
How it's told
- Who tells it
- A narrator who knows it all
- Pulls you in with
- The plot
- Style
- Easy to get into
Before you pick it up
Is it for you?
It's for you if…
- you like reading with your heart in your mouth
- you're drawn to the dark side of people
- you want a book that doesn't look away
Maybe not if…
- how it's written matters more to you than what happens
- you'd rather skip the hard scenes
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