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{"id":1906,"date":"2020-01-12T10:45:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T10:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2020-01-12T11:03:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T11:03:43","slug":"texas-reads-texas-murder-case-inspired-grisham-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/?p=1906&lang=ar","title":{"rendered":"Texas Reads: Texas Murder Case Inspired Grisham Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Guardians <\/em>by John Grisham is based on Texas murder case<\/p>\n

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John Grisham says the plot for his new best-selling novel, <\/span>The Guardians<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong> (Doubleday, $29.95 hardcover), is based on a Texas murder case.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThirty years ago,\u201d Grisham writes in an author\u2019s note at the end of the book, \u201cJoe Bryan was wrongly convicted of murdering his wife, a horrible crime that occurred at night while Joe was sleeping in his hotel room two hours away. The investigation was botched from the beginning. The real killer was never identified, but strong evidence points to a former policeman who committed suicide in 1996.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cJoe should have been exonerated and freed years ago, but it hasn\u2019t happened. His case languishes before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. He\u2019s seventy-nine years old and his health is failing. On April 4, 2019, he was denied parole for the seventh time.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Grisham read about Bryan\u2019s case in a New York Times Magazine<\/em> article in 2018, and it inspired him to write The Guardians<\/em> about a team of devoted, underpaid lawyers who work to free innocent inmates. Grisham flew to Beaumont to meet with Bryan in prison. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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In the novel, the main character\u2014attorney and Episcopal priest Cullen Post\u2014takes on the case of Quincy Miller, who was convicted twenty-two years ago for the murder of his divorce lawyer. The conviction was based on spurious \u201cback spatter\u201d evidence, that has since been discredited, and on false testimony by a supposed eyewitness, a jailhouse snitch, and a disgruntled ex-wife. Post works to get the witnesses to admit they lied and to find a forensic expert to re-examine the evidence in light of new scientific data.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Post and his investigator could find themselves or others involved in the long-ago trial in danger from corrupt, powerful, and wealthy forces who don\u2019t want the truth to come out.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Grisham, author of forty novels, is on the board of the Innocence Project which has worked on 189 successful DNA-based exonerations. He based his character Cullen Post on a former prison chaplain, James McCloskey, whose team at Centurion Ministries has helped free sixty-three innocent men and women.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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