Hardback: The Judge's List contains nonstop suspense from the #1 New York Times bestselling author: Investigator Lacy Stoltz follows the trail of a serial killer, and closes in on a shocking suspect - a sitting judge.
In The Whistler (2016 - first book in the Lacy Stoltz series), Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later, and approaching forty, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change.
Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby’s father was murdered twenty years earlier in a case that remains unsolved and that has grown stone cold. But Jeri has a suspect whom she has become obsessed with and has stalked for two decades. Along the way, she has discovered other victims.
Suspicions are easy enough, but proof seems impossible. The man is brilliant, patient, and always one step ahead of law enforcement. He is the most cunning of all serial killers. He knows forensics, police procedure, and most important: he knows the law.
He is a judge, in Florida - under Lacy’s jurisdiction.
He has a list, with the names of his victims and targets, all unsuspecting people unlucky enough to have crossed his path and wronged him in some way. How can Lacy pursue him, without becoming the next name on his list?
The Judge’s List (2021) is by any measure John Grisham’s most surprising, chilling novel yet.
About the author: John Grisham is the author of more than thirty novels, one work of nonfiction, a collection of stories, and seven novels for young readers.
After graduating from law school at the University of Mississippi in 1981, John Grisham began a career practicing law, specializing in criminal defense and personal injury litigation. In 1983, he was elected to the Mississippi state House of Representatives and served until 1990.
Inspired by cases and testimony, Grisham started to write as a hobby, getting up at 5am to write for an hour every morning before work. After three years, Grisham completed his first novel, A Time to Kill, in 1987. Initially rejected by many publishers, it was eventually bought by Wynwood Press, who printed 5000 copies and published it in June 1989.
His second novel, The Firm, was received with wider acclaim, with Grisham selling the film rights to Paramount Pictures and the book rights to Doubleday. The Firm spent forty-seven weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list and became the best-selling novel of 1991.
Since publishing his first novel, Grisham has written at least one novel a year, all of them international bestsellers, including the republished hardcover edition of A Time to Kill by Doubleday in 1993.
Rating: 5/5
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