Books like The Runaway Jury
If you liked The Runaway Jury by John Grisham, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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A Time to Kill
Because also by John Grisham; shares tags: legal, thriller, crime.
Lawyer Jake Brigance defends a father who killed his daughter's attackers.
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The Client
Because also by John Grisham; shares tags: thriller, legal, crime.
Eleven-year-old Mark Sway learns a mob secret in Memphis and hires lawyer Reggie Love for one dollar.
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The Pelican Brief
Because also by John Grisham; shares tags: thriller, crime.
Law student Darby Shaw writes a brief on murdered justices and becomes a target, fleeing with a reporter.
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The Firm
Because also by John Grisham; shares tags: thriller, crime.
Young lawyer Mitch joins a Memphis firm with great pay, then learns clients die and the FBI watches.
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The Silkworm
Because shares tags: crime, thriller.
A missing novelist and a cruel manuscript pull Strike and Robin into London publishing.
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
Because shares tags: thriller, crime.
Korede covers up her sister Ayoola's murders in Lagos until Ayoola starts dating Tade, the doctor Korede secretly loves.
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Killing Floor
Because shares tags: thriller, crime.
Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is arrested for murder in Margrave, Georgia, then learns the victim was his brother.
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Defending Jacob
Because shares tags: crime, courtroom.
A Newton prosecutor defends his fourteen year old son after a classmate is stabbed in the park.
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Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom
Because shares tags: thriller, crime.
Light Yagami finds a notebook that kills with a written name, and the hidden detective L sets a trap to expose him.
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Wrong Place Wrong Time
Because shares tags: thriller, crime.
Jen sees her son Todd kill a stranger, then wakes the day before, slipping back in time to stop the murder.
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The Outsider
Because shares tags: crime, thriller.
Coach Terry Maitland's DNA and witnesses point to an impossible murder, until Ralph Anderson and Holly Gibney trace it to El Cuco.
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The Only One Left
Because shares tags: thriller, crime.
Caregiver Kit tends mute Lenora Hope accused of 1929 family murders.
