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Often named an all time favorite by John Grisham´s legions of fans, the book that started it all gets a brand new chapter. America´s favorite storyteller returns to Ford County, Mississippi, where defense attorney Jake Brigance will have to fight for justice in a trial that could tear the small town of Clanton apart.

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John Grisham takes you back to where it all began. One of the most popular novels of our time, A Time to Kill established John Grisham as the master of the legal thriller. Now we return to Ford County as Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled 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 will raises many 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?

Praise for Sycamore Row

"Powerful . . . immensely readable . . . the best of his books."-The Washington Post

"Welcome back, Jake. . . . [Brigance] is one of the most fully developed and engaging characters in all of Grisham´s novels."-USA Today

"One of [Grisham´s] finest . . . Sycamore Row is a true literary event."-The New York Times Book Review

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"Powerful . . . immensely readable . . . the best of his books."-The Washington Post

"Welcome back, Jake. . . . [Brigance] is one of the most fully developed and engaging characters in all of Grisham´s novels."-USA Today

"One of [Grisham´s] finest . . . Sycamore Row is a true literary event."-The New York Times Book Review

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John Grisham wurde am 8. Februar 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, geboren, studierte in Mississippi und ließ sich 1981 als Anwalt nieder. Der aufsehenerregende Fall einer vergewaltigten Minderjährigen brachte ihm zum Schreiben. In Früh- und Nachtschichten wurde daraus sein erster Thriller, ´Die Jury´, der in einem kleinen, unabhängigen Verlag erschien, der Beginn einer beispiellosen Erfolgsgeschichte.

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