Sycamore Row

John Grisham takes you back to where it all began John Grishams 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 Countys 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 Americas 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.