Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions

In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim McCloskey share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions. Impeccably researched and grippingly told, Framed offers an inside look at the many injustices in our criminal justice system.

A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty there is very little room to prove doubt. Framed shares ten true stories of Americans who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free. In each of the stories, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey recount the dramatic hard-fought battles for exoneration. They take a close look at what leads to wrongful convictions in the first place, and the racism, misconduct, flawed testimony, and corruption in the court system that can make them so hard to reverse.

Told with page-turning suspense as only John Grisham can deliver, Framed is the story of overcoming adversity when the battle already seems lost, and the deck is stacked against you.

About the Author

JOHN GRISHAM is the author of 50 consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include Camino Ghosts, The Exchange, and his third Jake Brigance novel, A Time for Mercy, which is being developed by HBO as a limited series. Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction. When he’s not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system. Grisham lives on a farm in central Virginia.

Author Residence: Virginia & New Jersey

JIM McCLOSKEY founded Centurion Ministries, the first organization in the world devoted to freeing the wrongly convicted. Since its establishment 40 years ago, Centurion has freed 70 individuals, all of whom spent decades in prison, serving life or death sentences for the crimes of others. Prior to establishing Centurion, he spent three years as a Naval officer in Japan and Vietnam, and twelve years as a consultant to Japanese and American companies operating in New York and Tokyo. He has a Masters of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary. His memoir, When Truth is All You Have, was published by Doubleday in 2020.