Sycamore Row (Jake Brigance #2)

In the longawaited successor to the novel that launched his phenomenal career John Grisham brings us the powerful sequel to A Time to Kill As filled with pageturning twists as it is with legal mastery Sycamore Row proves beyond doubt that John Grisham is in a league of his own Jake Brigance has never met Seth Hubbard or even heard of him until the old mans suicide note names him attorney for his estate The will is dynamite Seth has left ninety per cent of his vast secret fortune to his housemaid The vultures are circling even before the body is cold the only subject more incendiary than money in Ford County is race and this case has both AS the relatives contest the will and unscrupulous lawyers hasten to benefit Jake searches for answers to the many questions left by Seth Hubbards death What made him write that lastminute will leaving everything to a poor black woman named Lettie Lang Why did he choose to kill himself on the desolate piece of land known as Sycamore Row And what was it that Seth and his brother witnessed as children that in his words no human should ever see