
Gray Mountain
- 475
- Pages
- about 9 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 24 weeks on the list, peaked at #1
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About the book
Gray Mountain is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham, published in hardcover on October 23, 2014. The book is set in Appalachia after the Great Recession and follows third-year associate Samantha Kofer after the Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, when she becomes a legal clinic intern in Virginia's coal mining country.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.4 across 79 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 34% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Thriller average of 7.6. That is how 7.2 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 6.4 | 79 | 100% |
Reader voices
The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).
“Finished up Gray Mountain by John Grisham the other day. I have read almost all of his books and for me this was maybe the weakest. It takes so long for the story to progress because half the book is just used setting up the…”
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It has 475 pages — longer than 68% of the ranked books in Thriller.
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