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Debi (USA: UT) (2008/09/04):
A different type of writing for John Grisham, because this story is true and something that Grisham did a great job of writing. In my humble opinion, I honestly believe no man should ever have had to go through such a sad situation as the man in the book. Having a mental illness does not make one guilty of a crime, and thus, no man should have to suffer as this man did.
Grisham did a tremendous job in telling the story of how an innocent man suffered unbearably for a crime he never committed.
Kendall (USA: OK) (2009/04/22):
I've never though of myself as a Grisham fan. I picked up this book simply because I have spent a lot of time in Oklahoma and I am slightly familiar with the town of Ada, Oklahoma. However, I found myself having hard time putting this one down. Being a nonfictional work, it reads like a dramatic piece of fiction. I cannot believe someone really had to go through what Ron Williamson endured. Great read and I would recommend it to anyone.
Ann Stoudt (USA: HI) (2023/03/13):
This was John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence.In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron’s home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered. The investigation led nowhere. Until, on the flimsiest evidence, it led to Ron Williamson. The washed-up small-town hero was charged, tried, and sentenced to death—in a trial littered with lying witnesses and tainted evidence that would shatter a man’s already broken life, and let a true killer go free.
Impeccably researched, grippingly told, filled with eleventh-hour drama, The Innocent Man reads like a page-turning legal thriller. It is a book no American can afford to miss.
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