#1 New York Times Bestseller • John Grisham returns to the iconic setting of his debut novel, A Time to Kill, as Jake Brigance becomes embroiled in a controversial trial that exposes a tortured history of racial tension.

Welcome back, Jake. [Brigance] is one of the most developed and compelling characters in any of Grisham's novels.— USA Today.

Seth Hubbard is a wealthy white man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before hanging himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new handwritten will. It's an act that draws his adult children, his Black housekeeper, and defense attorney Jake Brigance into a conflict as fascinating and dramatic as the murder trial that made Brigance one of Ford County's most famous citizens three years earlier.