Grisham has no truck with any studied elegance of style he is more in touch with the strategies played out in the books of such predecessors as Erle Stanley Gardner and his dogged attorney, Perry Mason. GuardianĪs with earlier books by Grisham, what we are given here is the purest of unvarnished storytelling.

Praise for Sycamore Row: Jake Brigance, hero of A TIME TO KILL, is backĪ solid courtroom thriller with plenty to say about the long half-life of prejudice in the deep south. As filled with page-turning twists as it is with legal mastery, Sycamore Row proves beyond doubt that John Grisham is in a league of his own. In the long-awaited successor to the novel that launched his phenomenal career, John Grisham brings us the powerful sequel to A Time to Kill. Why did he choose to kill himself on the desolate piece of land known as Sycamore Row?Īnd what was it that Seth and his brother witnessed as children that, in his words, 'no human should ever see'? What made him write that last-minute will leaving everything to a poor black woman named Lettie Lang? The vultures are circling even before the body is cold: the only subject more incendiary than money in Ford County is race, and this case has both.Īs the relatives contest the will, and unscrupulous lawyers hasten to benefit, Jake searches for answers to the many questions left by Seth Hubbard's death: Seth has left ninety per cent of his vast, secret fortune to his housemaid.

Jake Brigance has never met Seth Hubbard, or even heard of him, until the old man's suicide note names him attorney for his estate.

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