Category: John Grisham

Genre: Thriller Lawyer Lacy Stoltz (see my 2017 review of “The Whistler”) is still working at the Florida Board of Judicial Conduct (BJC). Her job there is to investigate complaints against judges in Florida. Lacy is looking at leaving the BJC, but… One day, an anonymous informant (the reader knows her name: Jeri Crosby) got…

Eight years ago: Clanton, Mississippi lawyer Stanley Wade defended Dr. Trane against a lawsuit by the family of a severely disabled (and disfigured) 3 year old boy. Lawyer Wade won the courtroom battle. The family got nothing. Now: Lawyer Wade is at the local Rite Price picking up frozen pizza to share with his flu-bound…

Genre: Thriller I asked Google Gemini AI to write a 150 word summary of this book. In 1946 Mississippi, war hero Pete Banning stuns the small town of Clanton by murdering the beloved Reverend Dexter Bell. Pete offers no explanation, leaving his family and community reeling. As Pete awaits execution, flashbacks reveal the horrors of…

Genre: Thriller 15 years after surviving “The Firm” (32 years between books in the real world), Mitch and Abby McDeere are happy, safe, and living in New York City. With two kids, Abby is an editor for a publisher of cook books and, with a great commerical grade kitchen in the apartment….the family gets LOTS…

Genre: Thriller “Sparring Partners” consists of three novellas. Below is a brief introduction to all three….. “Homecoming” The year is 1991 and Clanton, MS lawyer Jake Brigance is helping an old friend return to Clanton after disappearing several years earlier. Jake teams with Harry Rex and…….. “Strawberry Moon” Death row inmate, Cody Wallace, is three…

Several years ago, Clanton, Mississippi lawyer, Mack Stafford (Law Offices of Jacob McKinley Stafford, LLC) started a class action suit against a chainsaw company, Tinzo, for defects that maimed four clients. Mack promised his clients a large payout…..then for three years…..nothing happened. A phone call with a lawyer from New York City ended with the…

Genre: Cozy/Baseball Summer 1973 Mets pitcher, Warren Tracey is the number 4 pitcher behind the likes of Tom Seaver and Jerry Koosman. He is 34 years old and marching toward the end of his so-so career (if you can call being a major league pitcher so-so). He is a complete dick. Treats his wife (he…

Genre: Thriller It’s 2008, and Samantha Kofer is a lawyer in the Commercial Real Estate division of one of the largest law firms in the world: Scully & Pershing. Tensions are high since Lehman Brothers has just folded and Scully & Pershing has terminated dozens of people in other divisions. It’s just a matter of…

Genre: Thriller A short story included in John Grisham’s book: “Ford County: Stories” Bobby Carl Leach is Clanton’s most successful near-do-well. He has built his empire on small businesses, multiple housing units, a tractor supply company, trucks, and real estate. When his gambling debts mounted, one or more of his places mysteriously burned to the…

Five years after Jake Brigance defended Carl Lee in “A Time to Kill” and 2 years after Jake successfully upheld a holographoic will in “Sycamore Row”, Jake’s law practice is still struggling. Luckily, Jake hired Portia Lang as his assistant, but, she will be attending law school soon and Jake will lose her for a…