John Grisham the master of legal thriller teams up with Jim McCloskey, who has dedicated his life to exonerating innocent people, to uncover stories that shine an astonishing light on miscarriages of justice.

Joe Bryan suffered the unbearable tragedy of his wife’s murder, only to be tried and found guilty of the crime himself – despite being 120 miles away at the time of the murder.

Clarence Brandley spent nine years in Death Row, coming to within six days of execution, before new evidence emerged clearing him of all charges.

The case of Norfolk Four, police and prosecutors continued to arrest innocent people until not one but four men were behind bars.

Late Sunday night in January 1983, a 24-year-old black singer mother by the name of Ellen Reasonover stopped at a gas station in Missouri where she lived to buy cigarettes and get some change for the laundromat. Next day, she turned on the new to discover that an attendant had been murdered there shortly afterwards, and she called the police to tell them about two men she’d seen acting suspiciously. Afraid that the killed would come after her. Ellen gave the police a false name, but was persuaded to come forward to identify a suspect and mentioned when she did so that it might be someone she knew .

A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence but once someone has been found guilty there is very little room to prove doubt. Frames highlights ten true stories of men who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, wives,  and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free. In each of the stories, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey recount the dramatic hard-fought battles for exoneration. They also take a close look at what leads to wrongful convictions in the first place, and the racism, misconduct, flawed testimony, and the corrupt court system that can make them so hard to reverse.

Frame is the story of overcoming adversity when the battle already seems lost, and the deck is stacked against you.

Framed tell ten real life wrongful convictions cases with a truth more shocking than fiction.

Framed by John Grisham, Jim McCloskey , Doubleday, 368 pages