NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER John Grisham returns to the iconic setting of his first novel A Time to Kill as Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a controversial trial that exposes a tortured history of racial tension. Welcome back Jake. . . . Brigance is one of the most fully developed and engaging characters in all of Grishams novels.USA Today Seth Hubbard is a wealthy white 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 defense attorney Jake Brigance 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 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 Dont miss any of John Grishams gripping Jake Brigance novels A TIME TO KILL SYCAMORE ROW A TIME FOR MERCY show more