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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The perfect crime scene . . . in the type of wild but smart caper that Grisham’s readers love.”—Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing    Just as Bruce Cable’s Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida’s governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce decides to stay and ride out the storm. The hurricane is devastating: homes and condos are leveled, hotels and storefronts ruined, streets flooded, and a dozen people lose their lives. One of the apparent victims is Nelson Kerr, a friend of Bruce’s and an author of thrillers. But the nature of Nelson’s injuries suggests that the storm wasn’t the cause of his death: He has suffered several suspicious blows to the head. Who would want Nelson dead? The local police are overwhelmed in the aftermath of the storm and ill equipped to handle the case. Bruce begins to wonder if the shady characters in Nelson’s novels might be more real than fictional. And somewhere on Nelson’s computer is the manuscript of his new novel. Could the key to the case be right there—in black and white? As Bruce starts to investigate, what he discovers between the lines is more shocking than any of Nelson’s plot twists—and far more dangerous.Look for all of John Grisham’s rollicking Camino novels:Camino IslandCamino WindsCamino Ghosts

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Beck, Michael Narrator
Grisham, John Author
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9780385545938
9780593168448
9780385545945
9780593157770
9780593168615

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A teacher (Camino Island) or retired librarian (Hunter and Clewe) takes on a dangerous, yet well-paying career change in these suspenseful, intricately plotted series. -- CJ Connor
These thrillers will appeal to readers looking for plots related to books, book collecting, and local history with rich atmospherics and intriguing character studies. -- Andrienne Cruz
These intricately plotted thrillers both equally balance complex investigations of criminal activity with detailed explorations of a well-drawn setting and intriguing side characters. Camino Island is set in Florida, while Mud Sawpole takes place in Oklahoma on Kiowa land. -- Stephen Ashley
These suspenseful thrillers feature courageous booksellers who engage in dangerous detective work on the side (Camino Island) or as a second job (Nikki Griffin). -- Andrienne Cruz
Authors in Europe (David Mitre) and America (Camino Island) are roped into dangerous situations to help foil criminal activities in these suspenseful and compelling thrillers. -- Andrienne Cruz
These series have the theme "books about books"; and the subjects "bookstores," "amateur detectives," and "booksellers."
These series have the appeal factors suspenseful and intricately plotted, and they have the genres "thrillers and suspense" and "mysteries"; and the subjects "bookstores," "amateur detectives," and "women amateur detectives."
These series have the subjects "bookstores," "amateur detectives," and "booksellers."
These series have the appeal factors suspenseful, plot-driven, and intricately plotted, and they have the subjects "bookstores," "amateur detectives," and "booksellers."

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These books have the appeal factors suspenseful, plot-driven, and intricately plotted, and they have the genre "thrillers and suspense"; and the subjects "amateur detectives," "murder victims," and "secrets."
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NoveList recommends "Nikki Griffin novels" for fans of "Camino Island novels". Check out the first book in the series.
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NoveList recommends "Mud Sawpole mysteries" for fans of "Camino Island novels". Check out the first book in the series.
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David Baldacci writes high-energy suspense stories featuring corruption and conspiracies. Complex plots place characters in tense situations, which, it is important to note, can sometimes lead to more graphic violence than found in John Grisham's works. -- Kim Burton
In their novels, both John Grisham and Brad Meltzer portray young, vulnerable lawyers caught in difficult situations, pitted against powerful but corrupt enemies. Their books are characterized by fast pacing, provocative storylines, suspense and danger, along with sympathetic characters. -- Victoria Fredrick
John Grisham and Greg Iles write fast-paced legal thrillers. Often set in small Southern towns in the U.S., these suspenseful stories include a heavy emphasis on the personal lives of their characters and how their experiences influence their perspective and attitudes toward the legal cases they tackle. -- Halle Carlson
Both authors use their career experiences to write compelling legal thrillers starring attorneys who take on cases in pursuit of the truth that could cost them their lives. -- CJ Connor
These Southern writers rely upon their backgrounds as attorneys to create suspenseful thrillers with authentic details. Grisham's suspenseful legal thrillers often turn upon points of law. Morris's own voices novels put Black women front and center, whether as attorneys or innocent women running from the law. -- Michael Shumate
Fans of suspenseful and dramatic legal thrillers should explore the works of both John Grisham and Stephen L. Carter. Carter's stories tend to intensify as they progress, while Grisham's plots are propulsive from page one. -- Stephen Ashley
Lisa Scottoline and John Grisham's novels share a legal focus, sympathetic characters, fast pacing, and unexpected plot twists. There's more humor and sarcasm in Scottoline's stories, but both have a similarly suspenseful tone. -- Victoria Fredrick
John Grisham and Alafair Burke are known for their suspenseful and dramatic legal thrillers in which their relatable protagonists take on enormously challenging cases. Burke's work tends to be a bit grittier and darker than Grisham's. -- Stephen Ashley
Fans of Steve Martini's novels may also enjoy John Grisham's cinematic and page-turning legal thrillers. Both authors feature sympathetic protagonists -- often portraying lawyers as underdogs, fighting for justice. For Martini, investigation plays an important role, with actual courtroom drama often taking second place. -- Victoria Fredrick
Though there's a bit more wit in Marcia Clark's writing than John Grisham's more dramatic tales, both authors are known for keeping readers on the edge of their seats with their suspenseful and compelling legal thrillers. -- Stephen Ashley
Although Scott Turow's stories are more realistic and do not move at the same rapid pace as John Grisham's, readers who enjoy issue-oriented legal thrillers may appreciate each author's different strengths. -- Victoria Fredrick
Stuart Woods and John Grisham are both known for their provocative stories and relentless pacing. While there are suspense, action, and plot twists in both authors' novels, there's more sex and violence in Woods' books than in Grisham's. -- Victoria Fredrick

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Booklist Review

Returning to the setting of Grisham's Camino Island (2017), Bruce Cable is still running his bookstore, but, frankly, he's worried: a hurricane is bearing down on the island, promising to bring with it widespread destruction. Which it does, but it also brings something else: murder. In the middle of the worst storm to hit the island in years, a local writer, Nelson Kerr, is killed. The police have a lot on their plate in the aftermath of the storm, and they seem content to put this particular problem on the back burner, so Bruce decides to solve the mystery himself. The problem is, he has few clues and even fewer potential suspects. Camino Island was a delightful, rather laid-back small-town mystery involving writers and their craft. Here the focus remains the same--Bruce soon learns that Kerr's murder probably had something to do with the writer's work in progress, possibly the fact that the new novel's plot may have strong links to real-life wrongdoing. Readers who enjoyed the previous novel's character and island ambience will been equally taken with this one. A fine sequel.

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Publisher's Weekly Review

The murder of popular thriller writer Nelson Kerr during a hurricane drives bestseller Grisham's exciting follow-up to 2017's Camino Island. In the hurricane's aftermath, the Camino Island police are too preoccupied to handle the case competently, so Nelson's bookseller friend, Bruce Cable, the endearing though roguish leader of the Florida resort island's literary society, and his pals--ex-con crime writer J. Andrew Cobb and bookstore intern Nick Sutton--obtain permission from Nelson's relatives to investigate. The discovery of Nelson's unpublished final novel, concerning Medicare fraud, conceivably holds the key to his death. Believing the manuscript is fact posing as fiction, Bruce retains the services of a dodgy security firm to infiltrate nursing homes. This effort leads to more murders, a cover-up, and a massive FBI operation to bring the book's villains to justice. Grisham peoples the intriguing, elaborate plot with a winsome ensemble of distinguished authors and booklovers. Readers will hope to return soon to this appealing vacation hot spot. Agent: David Gernert, the Gernert Company. (Apr.)

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Kirkus Book Review

A tempest is bearing down, and murder most foul is afoot in Grisham's latest whodunit. Call it a metamystery: Grisham, prolific producer of courtroom thrillers, moves the action to a Florida resort island populated by mystery writers. In the wake of a ravaging hurricane, one of them turns up dead--a nice, affable fellow named Nelson Kerr, a former trial lawyer who "ratted out a client, a defense contractor who was illegally selling high-tech military stuff to the Iranians and North Koreans." It's not hard to understand that the client might want Kerr dead. But then, so would others whom Kerr has written about, including money launderers and--well, let's just say other entrepreneurs who wouldn't like their activities to be described in any detail. Enter bookstore owner Bruce Cable, friend, drinking buddy, and sometime editor and adviser of Kerr and other members of Camino Island's literary crowd, including "an ex-con who'd served time in a federal pen for sins that were still vague." Cable is perhaps Grisham's least sympathetic hero; he drinks night and day, sleeps around, and has few apparent scruples. At least he's not a lawyer. Neither is he a cop, though he's quicker on the scene than the island's homicide investigator--"I didn't know we had a homicide guy," Bruce allows, since murder is rare in these parts. That leaves it to him, an intern, a girlfriend, and assorted other players to piece together what happened to the unfortunate Mr. Kerr, who, it must be said, is dispatched in a way nicely in keeping with Floridian lifestyles. Grisham's tale unfolds at a leisurely pace, never breaking into a sweat, and if the bad guys seem a touch too familiar, the rest of the cast make a varied and believable lot, and some might even be fun to ride out a storm with, at least if they're unarmed. A pleasure for Grisham fans and an undemanding addition to the beach bag. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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Booklist Reviews

Returning to the setting of Grisham's Camino Island (2017), Bruce Cable is still running his bookstore, but, frankly, he's worried: a hurricane is bearing down on the island, promising to bring with it widespread destruction. Which it does, but it also brings something else: murder. In the middle of the worst storm to hit the island in years, a local writer, Nelson Kerr, is killed. The police have a lot on their plate in the aftermath of the storm, and they seem content to put this particular problem on the back burner, so Bruce decides to solve the mystery himself. The problem is, he has few clues and even fewer potential suspects. Camino Island was a delightful, rather laid-back small-town mystery involving writers and their craft. Here the focus remains the same—Bruce soon learns that Kerr's murder probably had something to do with the writer's work in progress, possibly the fact that the new novel's plot may have strong links to real-life wrongdoing. Readers who enjoyed the previous novel's character and island ambience will been equally taken with this one. A fine sequel. Copyright 2020 Booklist Reviews.

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PW Annex Reviews

The murder of popular thriller writer Nelson Kerr during a hurricane drives bestseller Grisham's exciting follow-up to 2017's Camino Island. In the hurricane's aftermath, the Camino Island police are too preoccupied to handle the case competently, so Nelson's bookseller friend, Bruce Cable, the endearing though roguish leader of the Florida resort island's literary society, and his pals—ex-con crime writer J. Andrew Cobb and bookstore intern Nick Sutton—obtain permission from Nelson's relatives to investigate. The discovery of Nelson's unpublished final novel, concerning Medicare fraud, conceivably holds the key to his death. Believing the manuscript is fact posing as fiction, Bruce retains the services of a dodgy security firm to infiltrate nursing homes. This effort leads to more murders, a cover-up, and a massive FBI operation to bring the book's villains to justice. Grisham peoples the intriguing, elaborate plot with a winsome ensemble of distinguished authors and booklovers. Readers will hope to return soon to this appealing vacation hot spot. Agent: David Gernert, the Gernert Company. (Apr.)

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