Camino Island

The sizzling crime thriller from the number 1 Sunday Times bestselling author

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: January LaVoy

All trails became dead-ends. Tips that had at first seemed urgent now faded away. The waiting game began. Whoever had the manuscripts would want money, and a lot of it. They would surface eventually, but where and when, and how much would they want?

The most daring and devastating heist in literary history targets a high security vault located deep beneath Princeton University.

Valued at $25 million (though some would say priceless) the five manuscripts of F Scott Fitzgerald's only novels are amongst the most valuable in the world. After an initial flurry of arrests, both they and the ruthless gang of thieves who took them have vanished without trace.

Dealing in stolen books is a dark business, and few are initiated to its arts - which puts Bruce Kable right on the FBI's Rare Asset Recovery Unit's watch list.

A struggling writer burdened by debts, Mercer Mann spent summers on Florida's idyllic Camino Island as a kid, in her grandmother's beach cottage. Now she is being made an offer she can't refuse: to return to the peace of the island, to write her novel - and get close to a certain infamous bookseller, and his interesting collection of manuscripts . . .

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Critic reviews

A bewitching blend of high-stakes spying mission and summer romance, with a fascinatingly ambiguous central character

The gripping plot will have you devouring the chapters in such a frantic fashion you'll begin to wonder if you are somehow complicit in this perfect crime

This story take you into the dark underworld of the black market for rare books. Think Da Vinci Code meets Sherlock Holmes

Grisham shows charm, wit and a light touch.

It's not often that bookish readers are a thriller's target audience so this one is very welcome.

Every now and then Grisham tries something new. This year he hit a bull's-eye with a beach book featuring a bunch of writers, not a bunch of lawyers. There's a huge sense of fun to this little experiment

In both of these irresistible reads Grisham introduces readers to memorable characters whom he capably brings to life

Good holiday read

A good narrator, clever plot and an interesting end to the story! A holiday read.

Easy like a breeze…

Great pacing. Nice interactions. Satisfying conclusion. Looking forward to rest of series though this could easily be read as a standalone.

Slow burn

Not up to usual Grisham standard. Highly improbable, very slow going with excessive padding and superfluous detail. The author seems to want to demonstrate a level of research and trivia rather than a story. A short story stretched into a book perhaps.

Enjoyed The Story

Loved reading. Full of suspense from the beginning. A bit different from other books written by J Grisham.

Slow and disappointing

I bought this book based on previous Grisham books I’ve read.
This book is really slow and goes into unnecessary detail which has nothing to do with the story. For example the main character going for a swim at the beach hoping the good looking jogger she’s seen goes past, but he doesn’t that day. It went into great depth, took ages and had nothing to do with previous or earlier storyline!!