Whilst his suicide is a shock for the residents of Ford County, a new handwritten will be an even bigger one and is the beginning of the legal troubles for others. He has some trusts issues, he doesn’t trust anybody! In a lot of pain, but determined to go out on his terms, he hangs himself from a sycamore tree.
The reclusive, untrusting and very wealthy Seth Hubbard is dying of lung cancer. After successfully defending a black man accused of murder, he is back in court in a fiercely controversial trial that will force Ford County to confront its tortured history. Sycamore Row sees Jake Brigance return to the courthouse setting in Clanton, a small town in Mississippi brimming with racial tensions.
Sycamore Row is the sequel to A Time to Kill and the second book in the Jake Brigance series, written more than 20 years later after the first and goes back to where it all started – the infamous courthouse in Clanton, Ford County. His first novel A Time to Kill is one of my favourite films, the first book in the Jake Brigance series and very popular in both formats. Since 1988 the lawyer and author has written a book every year with nine of them being turned into very successful and entertaining films, including A Time to Kill, The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client etc. Not only does he write legal thrillers for adults, he also writes them for children as well (and I think the Theodore Boone children’s series is quite good!). If you are looking for a good legal thriller then you really can’t go wrong with a novel written by John Grisham.
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