Category: John Grisham

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…

Genre: Thriller Three years after “Camino Island”, Mercer Mann has finished her book, “Tessa”, and it is now on the bestseller list. Bruce Cable, owner of Bay Books, is planning a huge party in honor of Mercer’s success, and everyone is invited! Hurricane Leo is wandering the Atlantic playing games with the weather forecasters. When…

Genre: Thriller Mark, Denny, Trey, Jerry, and Ahmed planned the “perfect” crime. Together, they planned, and executed, the nearly perfect heist of several of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s original handwritten manuscripts, including “The Great Gatsby”, from the Firestone Library at Princeton University. Each manuscript will be worth millions, and Mark, Denny, Trey, Jerry, and Ahmed are…

Genre: Thriller (Short Story) 33 year old Tee Ray has been laid off from his job and is now living with his 14 year old son, Jameel, in a tent on his friend’s back porch. There are not many opportunities in Little Angola, and many of the underemployed end up selling, delivering, or taking drugs.…

Genre: Thriller In 2010, seventeen years after the events in “Witness to a Trial” an informant is filing a complaint with the Florida Board of Judicial Conduct (BJC) against Judge Claudia McDover. Judge McDover, the informant claims, was in bed with the Catfish Mafia in 1993 to get a casino built on Indian lands (and…

Genre: Thriller A naked man and woman were found murdered in a bedroom in Brunswick County, Florida about two miles from the Tappacola Reservation. Both victims were shot in the head. On trial for the murder is Tappacola Indian, Junior Mace, the woman’s husband, and best friend of the murdered man, Son Razko. The Judge…