“A long-after sequel, of a sort, to A Time to Kill in which dogged attorney
Jake Brigance fights for justice in a Mississippi town where justice is not
always easy to come by. That’s especially true when the uncomfortable question
of race comes up, and here, it’s a doozy…Grisham, as ever, delivers a vivid,
wisecracking, and tautly constructed legal procedural from which the reader
might draw at least this lesson: You never want to wind up in front of a judge,
even one as wise as the earwig-welcoming Reuben V. Atlee, and if you do, you
want to have Jake Brigance on your side. Trademark Grisham, with carefully
situated echoes of To Kill a Mockingbird.
A top-notch thriller.”