Hodder & Stoughton has signed John Grisham’s Framed, a “page-turning” non-fiction project about 10 miscarriages of justice in the US, written with Jim McCloskey.
Oli Malcolm, managing director, and Oliver Johnson, editor, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from David Gernert at The Gernert Company. Publication on 8th October 2024 will be supported with an “unmissable” publicity and marketing campaign.
Framed is Grisham’s first non-fiction book since The Innocent Man (Cornerstone) and recounts the stories of 10 men and women who were imprisoned for life or received the death sentences in the US for crimes they did not commit. Grisham and McCloskey each wrote five stories.
Grisham commented: “Since I published The Innocent Man in 2006, I have wanted to write more true stories about wrongful convictions. From a pure storytelling perspective, they are incredible because the drama has so many layers: suffering, corruption, waste, faith, perseverance, and, hopefully, redemption – it’s all there in every case. From a moral perspective, it is imperative for a society to face and correct injustice. Jim McCloskey, the founder of Centurion Ministries, has lived that example by labouring for 45 years to free the innocent, and knows these heart-breaking tales better than anyone. We decided to write about and focus on the 10 most astonishing cases, and publish them as Framed. There are hundreds of others.”
McCloskey founded Centurion Ministries in 1983, the first non-profit organisation dedicated to freeing individuals wrongly imprisoned.
