Sycamore Row

Sycamore Row

John Grisham

#6876 of 8,085 books · #2231 in Crime & Thriller

Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller (2013).

Sycamore Row won the #1 New York Times bestseller designation. Seth Hubbard is a wealthy white 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 defense attorney Jake Brigance 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?