Greg Book Review - The Appeal / John Grisham

I love John Grisham books and anxiously await new ones. The Appeal appeared on the shelves of the SLC library recently and I picked it up last week with great expectations.
It is the story of the a small town in Mississippi that has their drinking water polluted by a large chemical company, which resulted in the death of several citizens. One of the widows filed suit against the company and won $43 million in damages. The head of the chemical company does not want to pay and is appealing to the Mississippi Supreme Court but is not certain he will win the appeal. So he makes a deal with a shady, but powerful, company that will finance the campaign of a business-friendly lawyer to be elected to the court. The book goes on to detail the pending appeal and subsequent election of the duped candidate to the court. I won't reveal the ending for those of you who would like to read it.
Grisham's style is one that I enjoy with short chapters, a lot of good, developed characters, very few long diatribes, and varying points of view. The Appeal had all of this and it built up wonderfully to a point at the end but I felt let down at the end. It failed to tie up loose ends and didn't leave me with a good feeling. I can see how this scenario could be entirely possible as more and more public positions are becoming politicized and those with the funds and lack of scruples are willing to do anything to advance their view.
CONCLUSION - One thumb up, one thumb down