![]() ![]() The Litigators ( Get this: John Grisham’s latest novel is funny).The Reckoning ( John Grisham digs deeply into history with this excellent WWII novel).Camino Island ( A daring heist, a frustrated novelist, and the ghost of F.Three that I particularly enjoyed, including the prequel to Camino Winds, were: Like practically everyone else in America who binges on popular fiction, I’ve read a great number of John Grisham’s. And as a bonus you’ll learn a little about the publishing industry. In the end, Camino Winds fits nicely into the Grisham ouevre: it’s an exposé of how crooks operate on the fringes of an industry that victimizes some of the most vulnerable people in our society. Apparently, the lawyer was writing a new novel sure to be a bestseller that would blow the lid off an enormous Medicare scam involving low-end nursing homes. But it’s Grisham’s book, and the backstory for the murder is compelling. If Agatha Christie had written this novel, we’d suspect every one of these characters, one after the other. Cable presides over a gaggle of full-time writers, most of them successful, including the murdered ex-lawyer. As we learned in Camino Island, he also is a collector of rare books who operates close to the legal limits of his field-and sometimes darts over them. The ringleader of the island’s literary mafia is Bruce Cable, who owns and runs a successful independent bookstore. ![]() Can a scam artist uncover a corporate scam? The job is left to the lawyer’s friends on the island-a cast of literary characters familiar to readers of the book’s prequel, Camino Island. The local police, and later the Florida state police, reluctantly agree that a murder was committed but seem loath to investigate seriously. He is murdered in the midst of the hurricane. A former lawyer has moved to the island to write novels after blowing the whistle on a massive fraud perpetrated by one of his clients. The mystery at the heart of Camino Winds is vintage Grisham. There’s a murder mystery slowly unfolding in the background, but it’s only in the second half of the novel that it becomes top of mind as it becomes clear that the murder is at the heart of a massive corporate scam.Ĭamino Winds by John Grisham (2020) 290 pages (4 out of 5) It’s enough to give you the impression that he has actually sat through a hurricane. The storm wreaks catastrophic damage, and Grisham’s description of its power is impressive. In the first of the two “books” that comprise Camino Winds, Grisham tells the tale of a Category 4 hurricane that strikes head on against an island off the Florida coast. The upshot is a reading experience that will be unfamiliar to many of Grisham’s fans. The first is all about a hurricane, the second, a corporate scam. Camino Winds is a curious example of a novel that’s really two books in one. But in his latest, he departs from the pattern. His facility with plots that steadily build anticipation toward a shattering and often surprising climax is legendary. John Grisham is widely regarded as a master of suspense. ![]()
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