Book description
Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often
surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is
remarkable that in the history of the USA only four active federal
judges have been murdered.
Judge Raymond Fawcett just became number five.
His body was found in the small basement of a lakeside cabin he had
built himself and frequently used on weekends. When he did not show up
for a trial on Monday morning, his law clerks panicked, called the FBI,
and in due course the agents found the crime scene. There was no forced
entry, no struggle, just two dead bodies - Judge Fawcett and his young
secretary.
I did not know Judge Fawcett, but I know who killed him, and why.
I am a lawyer, and I am in prison.
It's a long story.
'Grisham is a superb, instinctive storyteller'
John Grisham is the author of twenty-five novels, one work of
non-fiction, three novels for young readers, and one collection of short
stories. His works are translated into thirty-nine languages. He lives
in Virginia and Mississippi.
