John Grisham and Jim McCloskey tell the true stories of ten huge miscarriages of justice.
A book that sheds light on the American legal system and its inadequacies, and how hard it is to overturn a guilty verdict, even if there is new evidence to exonerate the accused parties.
When you read this book you will find it hard to believe some of the things the justice system gets up to. From flawed testimony, corruption, blatant lies and systemic racism.
This really is a heart wrenching and desperate set of stories, but has some moments of hope.
I personally can’t recommend this book enough, from start to finish you will engrossed and will find it hard to believe these stories are real.
This is an incredibly well researched book and brilliantly written and one I highly recommend.

John Grisham has always championed the work of the Innocence Project. In this book, he writes about cases that are so shocking and so full of holes that it beggars’ belief that the police could have got these poor innocent victims committed of crimes they had nothing to do with.

As I read through each story I was left wondering if this was simply police taking a view that it didn’t matter if they locked up an innocent person – as long as they could say they’d got their killer. I wish the stories written about in this book were simply a few cases where the wrong person is convicted without having committed the crime, but the Innocence Project will tell you a different story – the stories covered in this book are simply the tip of an iceberg.

Thank you, John Grisham, for bringing these stories to the attention of the public. Please never give up on the Innocence Project.

Rony
Elite Reviewing Group

would like to thank netgalley and the publisher for letting me read this book

oh man this was a hard read..... so many cases of injustices that is beyond belief....

thank god for DNA and the support of people going beyond their duty to help these people

John Grisham's books are always so powerful so I was very excited to read this and immediately I was drawn into the true nature behind this book. It felt full of raw emotion and true pain that showed the stories of the criminal justice system and why things need to change.

Unbeliveable is the overriding takeaway from this book.
Totally unbelievable that the so-called ‘land of the free’ can incarcerate so many innocent people.
Unbelievable that the police, the very people we look up to to protect us and the truth, can lie, deceive, dispose of or ignore evidence that doesn't suit their agenda and then commit perjury.
10 cases, 23 defendants inprisoned, some on death row, one executed.
Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions.

Framed is a collection of ten short stories based on the United States Judicial system. I use the word "stories" lightly as they are are all true wrongful convictions and the book written by best selling author John Grisham and Jim McCloskey, founder of Centurion Ministries who has worked for 45 years trying to free the innocent parties to these and many many more wrongful convictions.

I read this book with fascination and incredulousness as these stories are completely outrageous as to how the interrogations and gathering of false evidence took place, from wrongful interrogations to judges who refused to be budged by the truth and "experts" in their fields who had done no more than take a very short course and clearly had no real knowledge of the subject.

It is completely outrageous how so many innocent people, families and lives have been ruined by these miscarriages of justice. A big well done to Jim and the lawyers and many others involved who fought on every occasion, but so much time and lives have been lost in the process.

I'm glad I read this book and hope perhaps that some of these stories may be made into movies or tv shows to bring to the forefront of more people's minds in the hope that things like this don't continue to happen.

A big thanks to Hodder and Stoughton and Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this very thought provoking book.

John Grisham has collaborated with Jim McCloskey to produce Framed which looks at 10 wrongful convictions.

The individual cases are interesting enough however most if not all would have benefitted from being written about in more detail as it felt like the background was only being provided slightly superficial at times.

So whilst an interesting concept and book less cases in more depth may have been better.

In Framed, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey present 10 true cases of miscarriages of justice. Their stories reveal the lies, incompetence, laziness, misconduct and racism that condemned the innocent. This well-researched book is as gripping as any novel. You cannot read it without feeling anger at the injustices suffered. An important book that is highly recommended.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an arc in exchange for an honest review.

An astonishing series of coverups by the US State authorities, related in accessible and non legalistic prose. Often pretty chilling. How many other cases haven't come to light?

This was a difficult and heartbreaking read
Ten cases of wrongful convictions explained by John Grisham and Jim McClosey.
21 people accused of the most heinous crimes.
These miscarriages of justice that should never of happened they were at times nowhere near where the crimes were committed yet once the people in authority had them on their radar nothing and no one could change their minds even when the real culprit was at times under their noses.
The strength of the accused in each case is totally humbling.
I can not imagine what it must feel like to know you have not done something you are accused of but for no one to listen,to spend the best years of your life in prison and to lose everything you hold dear.
An important read that needs to be told.
Thanks to Netgalley and Hodder and Stoughton for the ARC.

This is a coruscating, frustrating, annoying and heartbreaking account of miscarriages of justice resulting in the wrongful conviction of innocent defendants.

There are 10 separate accounts of cases presented by a combination of John Grisham and Jim McCloskey which contain forensically detailed accounts of misconduct by lawyers, false and untrue confessions being beaten or coerced out of innocent victims, lying witnesses, a stubborn refusal to accept DNA evidence, racism and pure laziness and incompetence.

My blood boiled as I read these accounts and my heart went pout to all these innocent people - white and black alike who suffered so heinously through no fault of their own.

A difficult but important read.