Sycamore row

ISBN: 9780385537926 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0385537921 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: remote 1 online resource (447 pages)
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2013]
Copyright: &copy;2013

Summary: Returning to the courthouse in Clanton made famous by Grisham's A time to kill, 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?