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THEODORE BOONE'S town is under threat, from a group of corrupt men planning to build a freeway bypass and destroy countless homes. Now thirteen-year-old Theo - the schoolboy lawyer destined for the courtroom - must stand up for his city and stop them. But soon the fight turns nasty, and Theo and...

Winner of the British Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007.
With fourteen years left on a twenty-year sentence, notorious Washington powerbroker Joel Blackman receives a surprise pardon from a lame duck President. He is smuggled out of the country on a military cargo plane, given a new identity, and tucked away in a small town in Italy. But Backman has serious enemies from his past.

Winner of the British Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007.
The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before a packed courtroom in Clanton, Mississippi. The trial came to a startling and dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him. Nevertheless, they found him guilty, and he was sentenced to life in prison. But in Mississippi in 1970, 'life' didn't necessarily mean 'life'...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER John Grisham returns to the iconic setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill, as Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a controversial trial that exposes a tortured history of racial tension. “Welcome back, Jake. . . . [Brigance] is one of the most fully...

Winner of the British Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007.
Two supreme court justices are dead. Their murders are connected only in one mind, and in one legal brief conceived by that mind. Brilliant, beautiful, and ambitious, New Orleans legal student Darby Shaw little realises that her speculative brief will penetrate to the highest levels of power in Washington and cause shockwaves there.

Winner of the British Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007.
The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with two weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist high to my father, almost over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a 'good crop'.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the master of the legal thriller comes a “deeply engaging and enjoyable” (USA Today) novel featuring one of John Grisham’s most colorful, outrageous, and vividly drawn characters ever. ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST AND NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR On...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A fast-paced, fun read with echoes of something deeper. The author’s command of pop fiction delivers crisp, sharp prose.” —The Boston Globe In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel...

When Hurricane Leo threatens Florida's Camino Island, the Governor is quick to issue an evacuation order. Most residents flee but a small group of diehards decide to ride it out. Amongst them is Bruce Cable, proprietor of Bay Books in downtown Santa Rosa. The hurricane is devastating: homes and...

Jake Brigance, the protagonist of John Grisham's classic legal thriller, A Time to Kill, is back. This time he's at the epicenter of a sensational murder trial that bitterly divides the citizens of Clanton, Mississippi. John Grisham's A Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Jake Brigance is back! The hero of A Time to Kill, one of the most popular novels of our time, returns in a “riveting” (The New York Times) courtroom drama from “the best thriller writer alive” (Ken Follett). There is a time to kill and a time for justice...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES In this gripping legal thriller for young readers, danger has a way of finding Theodore Boone—“a terrific character, an everyman kind of kid” (USA Today)! “Edge-of-your-seat drama, sophisticated plotting, and plenty of spunk.”—Chicago...

A Time to KillThe life of a ten-year-old black girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her father acquires an assault rifle–and takes justice into his own outraged hands. For ten days, with...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A “compulsively readable” (Time) thriller featuring all the twists and turns that have made John Grisham the most popular storyteller in the world “A page-turner . . . Kyle McAvoy recalls Mitch McDeere from Grisham’s breakout novel The Firm. He’s young...

Et nygift par er på bryllupsrejse i Paris, da de pludselig bliver kidnappet på en dagstur ud på landet. Men hvem har taget dem – og hvorfor? Snart står det klart, at kidnapningen er del af en langt større plan. Efterretningstjenester fra Frankrig og USA må arbejde tæt sammen på tværs...

En gammel mand hænger sig og efterlader sig en overraskende stor formue. Da samtlige hans arvinger bliver forbigået i testamentet, er alle i chok – ikke mindst hans sorte hushjælp, som arver alle pengene. Hun søger hjælp hos advokaten Jake Brigance, der bliver midtpunkt i et drama om...

Advokaten Jake Brigance står over for en umulig opgave: at forsvare Carl Lee Hailey, der har dræbt de to mænd, der voldtog hans datter. I en by præget af racisme og splittelse må Jake kæmpe mod både offentlighedens vrede og sin egen moral. * Grisham leverer en intens thriller om hævn...

Under en rejse til Mellemøsten bliver en kvinde kidnappet og alle hendes livvagter bestialsk myrdet. Advokaten Mitch McDeere får til opgave at få gidslet fri, men han ved ikke, hvem kidnapperne er og kan ikke kontakte dem. Samtidig møder han uventet modstand fra dem, der burde være på hans...

Advokaten Simon Latch er presset. Økonomien halter, privatlivet smuldrer, og han er træt af både arbejdet og sine klienter. Men da en ældre enke dukker op på hans kontor, aner han en vej ud af krisen. Enken hævder at have en enorm formue, og nu vil hun have sit testamente ændret. Som...

Quincy Miller har siddet fængslet i over tyve år for et mord, han ikke har begået. Hans eneste håb er Cullen Post, en idealistisk advokat og præst, der kæmper for uskyldigt dømte. Men jo dybere Post graver i sagen, desto farligere bliver det – for nogen vil for enhver pris holde...