I guess I picked the wrong Grisham novel to start with. I picked it up on a whim, and while I liked the narrative style and tone, the structure of this book totally confused me. It's more like a series of vignettes about this lawyer's cases, some of which seem totally unrelated. Some of the main character's back story/info about his home life are repeated a couple of different times in different places as if the reader needs a refresher on something already explained just 75 pages ago, and the timeline is totally unclear. At times it feels like the events are not sequential, but then the narrator will briefly refer to something that happened at the beginning, and the timeline shifts again. Overall, it just didn't have a traditional narrative arc, which I didn't really like--I thought I was picking up a book with a set beginning, middle, thrilling action scene and great climax, and end, but this book does not have that.