I wouldn't claim to be the biggest fan of John Grisham however, I have found some of his books to be highly entertaining. 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. 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. Summary: John Grisham's A Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time. ‘A fantastic book’ – 5 STAR reader review 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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