{"id":6453,"date":"2018-07-28T20:50:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T02:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6453"},"modified":"2018-07-28T20:50:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T02:50:34","slug":"book-review-camino-island-by-john-grisham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6453","title":{"rendered":"Book review: Camino Island by John Grisham"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Camino Island by John Grisham (Dell, 2018) [Photograph by Edith-Mary Smith]<\/p><\/div>My list of all-time favorites by thriller writer John Grisham includes The Pelican Brief<\/em>, The Firm<\/em>, and The Rainmaker<\/em>. All are about lawyers and the law.<\/p>\n

Last week, I read one of his more recent novels: Camino Island<\/em> (Dell Books, 2018). Here, Grisham firmly breaks with tradition. Camino Island<\/em> has nothing to do with lawyers.<\/p>\n

It does, though, involve a robbery (of priceless manuscripts from the Princeton University library). It involves a young writer. Her name is Mercer Mann. It also involves a bookshop (on a pretty island off the coast of Florida) and that bookshop’s owner, Bruce\u2014a possible love interest for Grisham to dangle in front of the lonely Mercer.<\/p>\n

Camino Island<\/em> does not disappoint. Hardened Grisham fans,\u00a0perhaps expecting yet another law-firm thriller, will find the book enjoyable and alive with detail.<\/p>\n

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My list of all-time favorites by thriller writer John Grisham includes The Pelican Brief, The Firm, and The Rainmaker. All are about lawyers and the law. Last week, I read one of his more recent novels: Camino Island (Dell Books, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[1121,1120],"class_list":["post-6453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","tag-camino-island","tag-john-grisham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6454,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453\/revisions\/6454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}