The biggest earner, who writes books about young vampires, is a bore about her movie. With the authority of someone who’s been doing whatever he likes for decades, Grisham has planted an extraordinary bookshop on Camino, with Bruce as the bon vivant who runs it. The novel opens with a dinner party celebrating the end of her 34-stop book tour, which naturally brings her to Bruce Cable’s renowned Bay Books. Mercer, who was a fledgling author in “Camino Island,” is now a literary and commercial success. This is a Camino book with elements of a more traditional Grisham thriller thrown in. If “Camino Winds” is breezy, that’s mostly because its plot involves a ferocious hurricane. So readers may be glad to know that a sequel has arrived, although its tone isn’t nearly as light. It also starred a woman, Mercer Mann, who put the book squarely in Reese Witherspoon country.Īnyone who enjoyed “Camino Island” came away hoping it was the start of a series. Scott Fitzgerald manuscripts, a colony of gossipy writers and a lot of languid vacation time. This wouldn’t be much of a departure for some authors, but coming from Grisham it was a delightful surprise - all the more so because the sand was on the fictitious Camino Island, a Florida resort featuring one of the world’s great bookstores, stolen F. He ditched the lawyers to write an actual beach book, sand and all. Three years ago, John Grisham came up with a new formula for success.
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