John
Grisham takes you back to where it all began . . .
John
Grisham's A Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time. Now we
return to that famous courthouse in Clanton as Jake Brigance once again finds
himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial-a trial that will expose
old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history.
Seth
Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he
hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten, will. It
is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid, and Jake into a
conflict as riveting and dramatic as the murder trial that made Brigance one of
Ford County's most notorious citizens, just three years earlier.
The second
will raises far more questions than it answers. Why would Hubbard leave nearly
all of his fortune to his maid? Had chemotherapy and painkillers affected his
ability to think clearly? And what does it all have to do with a piece of land
once known as Sycamore Row?
In
Sycamore Row, John Grisham returns to the setting and the compelling characters
that first established him as America's favorite storyteller. Here, in his most
assured and thrilling novel yet, is a powerful testament to the fact that
Grisham remains the master of the legal thriller, nearly twenty-five years
after the publication of A Time to Kill.
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