Excellently written but fails to deliver. Review on Chamber, The - John Grisham

I haven't read any other Grisham novels but I found this quite well written. The story is well thought out about a young lawyer who is passionate about defending an old Ku Klux Klansman (who turns out to be his grandfather) from going to the gas chamber for a 30 year old crime. As the lawyer investigates his families sordid past the characters involved are deep and well developed and the story builds into something that could have been explosive at the end but instead it is snuffed like a candle.

Perhaps I'm just more used to cheap and cheesy novels but I really felt the whole was leading to a big twist at the end rather than what happens is exactly whats meant to happen. There is a great amount of detail about the characters and the situation they are in (obviously plenty on the gas chamber and death row) but at the end I just feel that it all became tied together and relevant.