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  1. Jul 29, 2019 · According to The Wrap, Treehouse Pictures has acquired the rights to John Grisham’s New York Times bestselling 2010 novel The Confession, which tells the story of the fight to free a...

    • Gary Collinson
  2. Jul 25, 2019 · In 1998, Travis Boyette abducts and rapes a teenage girl and buries her body. He watches unfazed as the police arrest and convict Donté Drumm, a black high school football player with no connection to the crime.

    • The Rainmaker (1997) This time it was Francis Ford Coppola, who took his piece of John Grisham. The Rainmaker, Grisham’s sixth courtroom thriller was adapted with splendid cast of Matt Damon, Claire Danes, Jon Voight and Danny DeVito.
    • The Client (1994) Director Joel Schumacher made this legal thriller, based on John Grisham’s fourth ‘The Client’. With the cast of Susan Saanson and Tommy Lee Jones and a thrilling story-line, the film turned out to be an overall success.
    • The Firm (1993) John Grisham’s first walk to fame The Firm, the best-selling novel of 1991. Sydney Pollack adapted this legal-thriller into a feature film starring Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman.
    • The Gingerbread Man (1998) The Gingerbread Man proves the significance of Grisham as a writer. A discarded manuscript by him was considered vital enough for filmmakers.
  3. The Confession is a 2010 legal thriller novel by John Grisham, his second novel to be published in 2010 (the first beingTheodore Boone: Kid Lawyer). The novel is about the murder of a high school cheerleader, and an innocent man's arrest for the crime.

    • John Grisham
    • 2010
  4. Aug 10, 2011 · By completely removing the ambiguity from the characters, Grisham presents The Confession as an argument on why the death penalty should be abolished. It can’t even be called a debate, because he refuses to make any of the pro-death penalty characters sympathetic, nor does he explain their reasons for advocating the death penalty, beyond ...

  5. The Confession, published in 2010, is a story of wrongful conviction after a teenage schoolgirl is abducted and murdered. In 1998, Travis Boyette, a serial sex offender who has spent more than half his life in prison, abducts, rapes and kills teenager Nicole “Nikki” Yarber.

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  7. Oct 26, 2010 · 74,053 ratings6,616 reviews. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. First time in paperback. An innocent man is about to be executed. Only a guilty man can save him. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, Travis Boyette abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high school cheerleader.

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