The Chamber

By John Grisham,

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • "A dark and thoughtful tale... Grisham is at his best." —People

In the corridors of Chicago's top law firm: Twenty -six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and…

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1 author picked The Chamber as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I read a lot of mysteries. Grisham’s are dependable—I’ll be caught up and lose myself in it. This one was really hard, the death penalty, a Klansman, 676 pages on a person you know you’d hate, but dammit, no! Not the gas chamber!

I almost didn’t want to keep reading because I knew where we were going. But yeah, cliché or not, I couldn’t stop. The grandson lawyer, the rotten convict, the evil system…I’d open it up and promise myself just one or two chapters, but somehow, I kept going. 

The book did what I want these mysteries to do—pull…

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