I have committed to reading all books published by Michael Crichton and John Grisham. When John published The Innocent Man, a non-fiction story of a fellow framed for murder, I once again committed to read it but expected that it would not have much tension and grip.

During the first half of the book I was delighted to find that, even though it was a retelling of history it still had the interesting feel of a fictional Grisham novel. I assume the second half will also be a good read.

My only issue comes with the few pages in the middle … those fancy photo pages where they show photos of the people referenced in the book … those neato pages that put faces with the people you have been reading about … those glossy pages which give away the rest of the book in the captions. Seriously, just because it is not made up doesn’t mean I don’t want to wait to see how it plays out.

Grr!