I denne romanen er John Grisham tilbake i rettslokalene i Clanton, og vi treffer igjen Jake Brigance fra romanen "A time to kill". Seth Hubbard er en velstående mann som er i ferd med å dø av lungekreft. Han stoler ikke på noen. Før han henger seg i et morbærtre, lager Hubbard et nytt håndskrevet testamente. Dette gjør at hans voksne barn, hushjelpen hans og Jake dras inn i en dramatisk arvekonflikt. Testamentet gir flere spørsmål enn svar. Hvorfor skulle Hubbard gi nesten hele sin formue til hushjelpen? Har cellegift og smertestillende medikamenter påvirket hans evne til å tenke klart? Og hva har dette å gjøre med en eiendom som tidligere gikk under navnet Sycamore Row?
"John Grisham takes you back to where it all began . . ."
John Grisham's "A Time to Kill" is one of the most popular novels of our time. Now we return to that famous courthouse in Clanton as Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial-a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history.
Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten, will. It is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid, and Jake 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.
The second will raises far more questions than it answers. Why would Hubbard leave nearly all of his fortune to his maid? Had chemotherapy and painkillers affected his ability to think clearly? And what does it all have to do with a piece of land once known as Sycamore Row?
In "Sycamore Row," John Grisham returns to the setting and the compelling characters that first established him as America's favorite storyteller. Here, in his most assured and thrilling novel yet, is a powerful testament to the fact that Grisham remains the master of the legal thriller, nearly twenty-five years after the publication of "A Time to Kill."
