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Sycamore Row by John Grisham

Sycamore Row

John Grisham

JG Publishing · Hardcover · October 22, 2013

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham returns to the iconic setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill, as Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a controversial trial that exposes a tortured history of racial tension. “Welcome back, Jake. . . .

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Who it’s for
A contested will opens into a legal fight shaped by wealth, trust, and racial tension.
Themes
Racial tension, Inheritance dispute, Controversial trial
Genres
Legal Thrillers, Mystery, Southern Fiction

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham returns to the iconic setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill, as Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a controversial trial that exposes a tortured history of racial tension. “Welcome back, Jake. . . . [Brigance] is one of the most fully developed and engaging characters in all of Grisham’s novels.”—USA Today Seth Hubbard is a wealthy white man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one.

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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 defense attorney Jake Brigance 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 many 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? Look for all of John Grisham’s gripping Jake Brigance novels: A Time to Kill Sycamore Row A Time for Mercy

A Will in Dispute

A contested will opens into a legal fight shaped by wealth, trust, and racial tension.

Come here for

  • Courtroom conflict with moral questions in the margins
  • Jake Brigance’s return to a controversial trial

Expect

  • A will that raises more questions than it answers
  • A legal thriller rooted in a history of racial tension

Where it sits

Legal Thrillers73%
Southern Fiction36%
Mystery24%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Suspense
  • Legal Thrillers
  • Legal Fiction
Authors
John Grisham
Publisher
JG Publishing
Published
October 22, 2013
Format
Hardcover
Theme
Racial tension · Inheritance dispute · Controversial trial
Reading lane
Suspense