Sycamore Row, the legal thriller by John Grisham, brings back
A Time To Kill lawyer Jack Brigance who finds himself once again embroiled in a controversial trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history.
This popular book has been on the New York Times bestseller list since its debut in October and is frequently checked out by our library patrons. Have you already read it and are are you looking for more books just like it?
If so then you may like one, or all, of these titles recommended by
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A Certain Justice by Lescroart, John T.
Set in San Francisco,
A Certain Justice is about justice denied in a most violent fashion, and the ultimately heroic actions of a so-called common man, Kevin Shea, who becomes involved with the law to the extent that he is hunted, hounded and nearly destroyed for an act he never committed.
Investigating the suicide of one of Washington, D.C.'s most influential defense officials, military lawyer Sean Drummond and his female partner find themselves in the middle of a political struggle between the region's most influential power brokers and his own allegiance to the soldiers fighting in the Iraqi war.
When the body of Kate Townsend turns up near the Mississippi River and his close friend, physician Drew Elliott, admits to a love affair with the murdered girl, attorney Penn Cage once again tangles with the dark side of his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, to investigate the secret world of an elite nearby high school, teenage sex, drugs, and violence.
Ray Atlee and his brother, Forrest, receive a letter from their father, a reclusive, retired judge, instructing them to return home to Clanton, Mississippi, to discuss his estate, but the judge dies before his sons arrive, leaving behind a secret known only to Ray.
When a judge returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste in a small Mississippi town, the company's billionaire owner seeks to influence the appeal process by using his money to "buy" a seat on the state Supreme Court.
