I have read most of John Grisham's novels and as always he is a great writer and I, for the most part, enjoy reading his work. The Last Juror had my attention at the beginning as Willie Traynor, new to the South, buys the obsolete newspaper The Ford County Times. The mystery begins when the brutal rape and killing of Rhoda Kassellaw, a widowed mother of two, occcurs, and the suspect is a member of a notorious bootlegging rebel family, the Padgitts. I was under the impression that the story would get more interesting as the trial of Danny Padgitt starts, however, in the middle of the book I realized that the story was going to focus on Miss Callie Ruffin, the first and only Negro juror in the Danny Padgitt trial. I found this to be disappointing; Willie Traynor becomes friends with Miss Callie and they get together every Thursday for her homecooked lunches while he does a little research on her past, and present, for an article in the Times. As Willie learns more about the Ruffins he becomes a huge fixture in the lives of Miss Callie and her sons and daughters, eventually treated as one of the family. The story virtually remains focused on her until she dies. As always, the characters are colorful, and their personalities come to life, but, overall, I was not impressed with this book.