One morning, Pete rises and decides that today is the day for an act of killing. In Part One, "The Killing," Pete's wife Liza has recently been placed in a mental institution his children Joel and Stella are college students and his sister Florry is a would-be writer who lives on an adjacent parcel. He is owner of a 640-acre parcel in northern Mississippi. Pete Banning comes from a family that has farmed cotton for generations. It is the seventh Grisham novel to take place here, following A Time to Kill, The Summons, The Chamber, The Last Juror, Sycamore Row, and A Time for Mercy. The story takes place in the fictional town of Clanton, Mississippi, in Grisham's Ford County. The plot centers on the 1946 murder trial of prominent family patriarch Pete Banning, a war hero who has returned home from the Second World War. In addition to Grisham's typical legal thriller, the book was also characterized by reviewers as "a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, a family saga, a coming-of-age story," "a period piece", and a war novel. The Reckoning is a best-selling novel by John Grisham.
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