In the long-awaited successor to the novel that launched his phenomenal career John Grisham brings us the powerful sequel to A Time to Kill As filled with page-turning twists as it is with legal mastery Sycamore Row proves beyond doubt that John Grisham is in a league of his own Jake Brigance has never met Seth Hubbard or even heard of him until the old man's suicide note names him attorney for his estate The will is dynamite Seth has left ninety per cent of his vast secret fortune to his housemaid The vultures are circling even before the body is cold the only subject more incendiary than money in Ford County is race & this case has both AS the relatives contest the will & unscrupulous lawyers hasten to benefit Jake searches for answers to the many questions left by Seth Hubbard's death What made him write that last-minute will leaving everything to a poor black woman named Lettie Lang? Why did he choose to kill himself on the desolate piece of land known as Sycamore Row? & what was it that Seth & his brother witnessed as children that in his words 'no human should ever see'?