The Last Juror is a 2004 novel by John Grisham. It takes place throughout the 1970s in Ford County, Mississippi and begins as the narrator, a young roustabout booted from Syracuse J-school moves to Clanton, Mississippi (by way of Memphis) and buys the local newspaper out from a retiring publisher, whose progressivism begins and ends with extending the obituary section to the Black residents of the town. Young and brash and not really knowing what he’s doing, the narrator gets his break when a local […]