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Book Review of The Last Juror

The Last Juror
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In 1970 Willie Traynor came to Clanton, Mississippi, in a Triumph Spitfire and a fog of vauge ambitions. Within a year, the 23 yr old found himself the owner of Ford County's only newspaper, famous for its well crafted obituaries. While the rest of America was in the grips of turmoil, Clanton lived on the edge of another age -- until the brutal murder of a young mother rocked the town and thurst Willie into the center of the storm. As the ghosts of the South's past gather around Willie tentions swirls around Clanton, men and women who served on a jury are starting to die one by one.