
The second will raises many more questions than it answers. 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 County’s most notorious citizens, just three years earlier. A Time to Kill described Jake’s defense of an undeniably guilty but very sympathetic client a Black man on trial for killing the two white men who brutally raped his 10-year-old daughter. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten will. Seth Hubbard is a wealthy white man dying of lung cancer. is one of the most fully developed and engaging characters in all of Grisham’s novels.”- USA Today 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.The second will raises many more questions than it answers. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The master of the legal thriller probes the savage depths of racial violence in this. 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 County's most notorious citizens, just three years earlier. is one of the most fully developed and engaging characters in all of Grisham's novels."- USA Today Seth Hubbard is a wealthy white man dying of lung cancer.


#1 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. His recent books include The Judges List, Sooley, and his third Jake Brigance novel, A Time for Mercy, which is being developed by HBO as a limited series.
