John Grisham takes you back to where it all began. One of the most popular novel
s of our time, "A Time to Kill" established John Grisham as the master of the le
gal thriller. Now we return to Ford County as Jake Brigance finds himself embroi
led in a fiercely controversial trial that exposes a tortured history of racial
tension.
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 w
ill raises many more questions than it answers. Why would Hubbard leave nearly a
ll of his fortune to his maid? Had chemotherapy and painkillers affected his abi
lity to think clearly? And what does it all have to do with a piece of land once
known as Sycamore Row?
