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John Grisham und sein Jake Brigance - das passt.
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Sycamore Row (Jake Brigance)
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • 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 developed and engaging characters in all of Grisham’s novels.”—USA Today
A Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time. Now we return to that famous courthouse in Clanton as Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial-a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history.
Seth Hubbard is a wealthy 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 Jake 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 far 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?
In Sycamore Row, John Grisham returns to the setting and the compelling characters that first established him as America's favorite storyteller. Here, in his most assured and thrilling novel yet, is a powerful testament to the fact that Grisham remains the master of the legal thriller, nearly twenty-five years after the publication of A Time to Kill.
Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!
“Welcome back, Jake. . . . [Brigance] is one of the most fully developed and engaging characters in all of Grisham’s novels.”—USA Today
A Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time. Now we return to that famous courthouse in Clanton as Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial-a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history.
Seth Hubbard is a wealthy 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 Jake 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 far 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?
In Sycamore Row, John Grisham returns to the setting and the compelling characters that first established him as America's favorite storyteller. Here, in his most assured and thrilling novel yet, is a powerful testament to the fact that Grisham remains the master of the legal thriller, nearly twenty-five years after the publication of A Time to Kill.
Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!
Editions (6)
ISBN9780385537131
PublisherDoubleday
Publication Date10/22/13
Pages447
FormatHardback
LanguageEnglish
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maengelexemplar49 Followers
4.5Ein weiterer solider Grisham. Ich mag die eher ruhige und manchmal nüchterne Erzählweise, die trotzdem nicht langweilig wird. Er ist halt der Meister seines Fachs - Justizthriller. Die Beschreibungen sind trotzdem oft so intensiv, dass ich mich förmlich in die Szenerie reingesogen fühle. Als ob ich in dem Geeichtssaal in Mississippi am Tisch von Anwalt Jake Briance sitzen und den Prozess miterleben würde. So hat mir auch "Die Erbin" wieder sehe gut gefallen.
Jan 5, 2026
4.5Ein weiterer solider Grisham. Ich mag die eher ruhige und manchmal nüchterne Erzählweise, die trotzdem nicht langweilig wird. Er ist halt der Meister seines Fachs - Justizthriller. Die Beschreibungen sind trotzdem oft so intensiv, dass ich mich förmlich in die Szenerie reingesogen fühle. Als ob ich in dem Geeichtssaal in Mississippi am Tisch von Anwalt Jake Briance sitzen und den Prozess miterleben würde. So hat mir auch "Die Erbin" wieder sehe gut gefallen.
Jan 5, 2026
eva_liest_das41 Followers
4.0Sehr spannende Geschichte um ein rätselhaftes Erbe.
Das Buch hat mich von Beginn an in seinen Bann gezogen. Das unglaubliche Testament des Seth Hubbert und ein damit verbundenes Familiengeheimnis bringt Menschen zusammen in einen Gerichtssaal, von denen jeder Einzelne der Meinung ist, das Recht auf seiner Seite zu haben. Doch wie wird die Jury entscheiden und ist das Urteil wirklich gerecht? Zwischendruch minimal langatmig aber vielleicht war ich auch nur zu ungeduldig (-:
Jul 30, 2023
4.0Sehr spannende Geschichte um ein rätselhaftes Erbe.
Das Buch hat mich von Beginn an in seinen Bann gezogen. Das unglaubliche Testament des Seth Hubbert und ein damit verbundenes Familiengeheimnis bringt Menschen zusammen in einen Gerichtssaal, von denen jeder Einzelne der Meinung ist, das Recht auf seiner Seite zu haben. Doch wie wird die Jury entscheiden und ist das Urteil wirklich gerecht? Zwischendruch minimal langatmig aber vielleicht war ich auch nur zu ungeduldig (-:
Jul 30, 2023
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