The Reckoning/John Grisham/420 pgs/Author's last name ends with M

In this Grisham thriller the reader is introduced to Pete Banning, a Mississippi cotton farmer and a decorated WWII officer and hero.

Unfortunately, this meeting is soon tarnished when Banning walks into his church and shoots and kills his pastor, Dexter Bell.  Banning turns himself in to the local authorities and calmly awaits his fate.

Stunned by his actions, Pete’s family and friends struggled to understand why he committed the heinous act.  Pete refused to discuss anything pertaining to the shooting or participate in his defense.

The reader meets his wife, children, and sister who are deeply troubled by the shooting and subsequent execution of their loved one.

Grisham, like a great thriller writer, takes his readers along to the end before revealing the mystery behind Banning’s motive for the killing.