![]() ![]() His touch never strayed far from his wife. I just thought I heard… I was reminded of someone I once knew.”ĭamon slid his hand from Serena’s arm and picked up his glass of wine. “Is something the matter?” Damon Roche asked.Ĭole turned back to his friend and dinner companion and cast an apologetic glance in Serena Roche’s direction. But he couldn’t find the source of the burst of laughter, nor did he hear it again. He scanned the interior of the restaurant, his eyes sharp as he took in each table. How he’d hurt her when it was the very last thing he’d ever wanted or intended. It still hurt him to bring her to mind years later. Not because she’d slipped from his mind, but because he’d willed himself to stop thinking of the beautiful, shy eighteen-year-old girl who’d meant the world to him when he was in his early twenties. He hadn’t thought about her in a while now. The memory of her still had the power to make him ache. And then he thought he’d heard it before. ![]() He turned, seeking the source of the captivating music. So effervescent and full of unfettered joy that it arrested him and he couldn’t remember what he’d been thinking just moments earlier. Her laughter was the first thing that caught his attention. ![]()
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Grisham is best known for his legal thrillers, of course, a series launched by A Time To Kill, which despite some of the brilliant novels that have followed, remains perhaps the very best, a mesmerising tale of prejudice, violence and bravery in Ford County, Mississippi, the deepest well of the deep south. And whether the book was about tragic baseball careers ( Calico Joe), washed-up football stars landing in Italy ( Playing for Pizza) or even a middle-aged couple's ill-fated attempt to skip Christmas, the books have been sublimely readbale and I've enjoyed all of them. ![]() ![]() Aside from his YA Theodore Boone novels, I've read everything he's published. Since 1989, when John Grisham published his debut novel, A Time To Kill, this lawyer-turned-writer has been consistently brilliant. ![]() ![]() ![]() She experimented with fiction as a child. 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