Sycamore Row

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 10/22/2013
ISBN: 9780385537131
Pages: 447
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.50d
Award: Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize - Finalist
Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/15/2013 pg. 52
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2013 pg. 4
Publishers Weekly 10/28/2013
People Weekly 11/18/2013 pg. 54
Entertainment Weekly 11/15/2013 pg. 85
New York Times Book Review 11/10/2013 pg. 14
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2013
Library Journal 05/15/2013

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 163540 / Sycamore Row
Reading Level: 6.2 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 28