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Three thrilling stories of the law from the master of the legal thriller.
Homecoming takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham's unforgettable stories. Jake...
GRISHAM, John
The Last Juror
A young mother was raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family.
The trial of Danny Padgitt came to a dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they...
The Judge's List
In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years...
Camino Winds
Bruce Cable, the owner of Bay Books, is unwillingly thrust into investigating a murder for hire after his author friend Nelson Kerr is killed during a hurricane. With state and local police...
The Racketeer
The Racketeer is a classic example of a revenge story. The main character Bannister is wronged early in the narrative by antagonistic forces and spends the remainder of the plot planning and...
The Reckoning
In addition to Grisham's typical legal thriller, the book was also characterised as "a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, a family saga, a coming-of-age story," "a period piece", and a war novel. Sexual...
Sooley: A Novel
Sooley is a South Sudanese who tried out for a team that would be playing basketball in the United States. He made it to the team and, with the help of his South Sudanese coach, improved his game and was...
A Time for Mercy
The main character of the novel is Jake Brigance, who made his appearance in earlier novels of Grisham, like A Time to Kill (1984) and Sycamore Row (2013). The setting is in Clanton,...
The Guardians
The protagonist of the novel is one Cullen Post, a lawyer who left his law practice in a public defender's office, disenchanted with the need to defend guilty criminals. At one point in his life he decides...
Witness To a Trial
The author narrates an original legal drama which remains unresolved and shows the flaws of the American justice system, as well as the doubts about its capacity to impose death sentences. He briefly...