Sycamore Row - J. Grisham

John Grisham takes you back to where it all began. One of the most
popular novels of our time, A Time to Kill established John Grisham
as the master of the legal thriller. Now we return to Ford County
as Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a fiercely
controversial trial that exposes a tortured history of racial
tension. 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 many 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?