In Sycamore Row, John Grisham returns to the setting and the compelling characters that first established him as America's favorite storyteller. 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? The second will raises far more questions than it answers. 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. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten, will. Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. 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. John Grisham's A Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time.

By the time this tightly wound thriller reached its conclusion, we couldn’t wait to start the sequel, Sycamore Row.John Grisham takes you back to where it all began. He also paints the novel’s setting in vivid detail, filling A Time to Kill with compelling side characters and moments of small-town eccentricity. Can he and his client survive the turmoil as long-simmering racial tensions threaten to tear their community apart? Tackling racism, our flawed criminal justice system, and the often heavily biased role of the media, Grisham does more than pay lip service to these hot-button issues. Local attorney Jake Brigance takes on the man’s case, despite the escalating racial violence surrounding it in their largely segregated town of Clanton, Mississippi.

When a 10-year-old black girl is raped by two local white reprobates, her father takes justice into his own hands, murdering them in a state of rage. John Grisham showed his mastery of the legal thriller with this taut, slow-burn story of a small-town Southern lawyer taking on a racially charged case.

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