Sycamore Row
On sale
22nd October 2013
Price: £8.99
Genre
SOME CRIMES CAN NEVER BE FORGIVEN.
Seth Hubbard has waited a long time for revenge.
He was haunted his entire life by something terrible he saw as a child: and now he’s dead, he’s not going to let the past die with him.
Disinheriting his wives and children, he has left his vast, secret fortune to his housemaid and appointed Clanton’s famous lawyer, Jake Brigance, to uphold his last request.
Now Jake must defend the will – whatever the cost…
💥350+ million copies, 45 languages, 10 blockbuster films: JOHN GRISHAM IS THE MASTER OF THE LEGAL THRILLER💥
Reader reviews of Sycamore Row:
‘The writing and pace are flawless’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
‘An excellent courtroom drama’⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
‘Brilliantly written’⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
‘Outstanding’⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
‘A must read!’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
Seth Hubbard has waited a long time for revenge.
He was haunted his entire life by something terrible he saw as a child: and now he’s dead, he’s not going to let the past die with him.
Disinheriting his wives and children, he has left his vast, secret fortune to his housemaid and appointed Clanton’s famous lawyer, Jake Brigance, to uphold his last request.
Now Jake must defend the will – whatever the cost…
💥350+ million copies, 45 languages, 10 blockbuster films: JOHN GRISHAM IS THE MASTER OF THE LEGAL THRILLER💥
Reader reviews of Sycamore Row:
‘The writing and pace are flawless’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
‘An excellent courtroom drama’⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
‘Brilliantly written’⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
‘Outstanding’⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
‘A must read!’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
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Reviews
Praise for THE LITIGATORS:
'Grisham is brilliantly comic in a novel that is full of zest and brimming with memorable characters and rich storylines... The legal storylines are typically rich in social detail and instances of entertaining rascality... Away from his usual southern turf, Grisham is turned by Chicago into a more Dickensian writer, soft-hearted at times but predominantly funny... a brilliant comic set piece'
'The Litigators is up there with the best of Grisham's 25 novels... vintage Grisham. [His] style is direct and the result is a superbly plotted legal thriller'
'The Litigators is a thrilling romp through the murky world of lawsuits and shysters - rich and poor. Packed with [Grisham's] signature twists and turns, not to mention lots of double-dealing, be careful if you're reading The Litigators on the bus, you may just miss your stop'
A solid courtroom thriller with plenty to say about the long half-life of prejudice in the deep south... The much-trailed conclusion is powerful.
As with earlier books by Grisham, what we are given here is the purest of unvarnished storytelling. Grisham has no truck with any studied elegance of style; he is more in touch with the strategies played out in the books of such predecessors as Erle Stanley Gardner and his dogged attorney, Perry Mason. But he knows that modern readers require a conflicted, multifaceted hero, and that he provides in Jake Brigance. It's good to see the troubled attorney back.
Grisham's decision to revive Brigance after almost 25 years and write what amounts to a historical novel is intriguing. He has produced a solid courtroom thriller with plenty to say about the long half-life of prejudice in the deep south. (Segregation, too: when Brigance invites Lang's 25-year-old daughter, Portia, home to dinner, he realises she is the first black person ever to have eaten in his house.) Coming so close on the heels of last year's The Racketeer, however, Sycamore Row can't help but disappoint. That novel, about a small-town lawyer jailed for accidentally laundering money, was a blast - as devious and unpredictable as its sociopathic antihero narrator.
Sycamore Row bristles with all the old authority....It's good to see the troubled attorney back
A gripping read
No one does it better than Grisham
The best thriller writer alive
Sycamore Row bristles with all the old authority....It's good to see the troubled attorney back
A gripping read
No one does it better than Grisham
The best thriller writer alive