Book description
Ray Atlee, a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, is
forty-three and newly single. His father, a very sick old man who
lives the life of a recluse in the ancestral home in Clanton,
Mississippi, was once a beloved and powerful official who towered over
local law and politics for many years.
With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons to Ray to return
home to Clanton, to discuss the details of the family estate.
Ray reluctantly heads south, but the family meeting does not take
place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a
shocking secret which Ray believes only he knows. Until it becomes
clear that someone else knows too...
John Grisham is the author of twenty-two novels, one work of
non-fiction, a collection of short stories, and a novel for young
readers. He is on the Board of Directors of the Innocence Project in
New York and is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the
Mississippi Innocence Project at the University of Mississippi School
of Law. He lives in Virgina and Mississippi.
His website is www. johngrisham. co. uk
